| 单词 | concerto |
| 例句 | For the next half-century, the concerto reigned supreme, and its godfather, or archangel perhaps, was composer-violinist Arcangelo Corelli. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z One day, Wilfred walked in and found me listening to a piano concerto. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Whether I play the blues or boogies, concertos or cantatas, I forget about me. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z “Will you be trying for the concerto competition?” If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I learned to tell the difference between Beethoven and Bach, between a sonata and a concerto. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z I speak twenty languages, living and dead; I’m a mathematical whiz, and I’m writing a piano concerto that will make them remember me long after I’m gone. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z Soft piano or violin concertos with orchestral accompaniments work well. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z He was playing a piano concerto at Lincoln Center. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z Oh, man, I could play a piano concerto set to the uncomfortable looks on their faces. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z Some suggestions: an unaccompanied violin or cello sonata, a flute, oboe, trumpet, or horn concerto, Asaian or native American flute music, classical guitar, bagpipes, steel pan drums, panpipes, or organ. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z July 5—I dedicated my first piano concerto to Fay. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z He went through the two other hymns he’d learned—“The Rosary” and “A Mighty Fortress Is Our God”—and then did the violin concerto. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Still, I practice chords and arpeggios, scales and phrases, until finally, she takes me deeply into the lesson for the day—a Mozart concerto this time. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z “Are you using that for the concerto competition?” If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z His fingers were long and nimble, and as he moved, his hand quitting the piece with a flourish, he looked like a classical pianist playing a concerto. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Before I sent in my application, I had to practice every spare moment with Professor Christie to fme-tune the Shostakovich concerto and the two Bach suites. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Many of Wolfgang’s childhood compositions, such as the first seven of his concertos for piano and orchestra, are largely arrangements of works by other composers. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z But what was it about Corelli’s ‘concerto’ style that so caught the imaginations of other musicians? The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Corelli’s typical concerto grosso was divided into three sections of contrasting speeds - slow-fast-slow or fast-slow-fast - after the fashion of the earlier consort suites or setts. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z He was playing a fragment of a Beethoven concerto. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z The pieces in which Corelli developed this light-and- shade technique came to be known by the name of the larger group, concerto grosso, and subsequently the generic term ‘concerto’. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z If the symphony showed Prokofiev at his weightiest, Shostakovich’s second piano concerto shows this composer at his most elfin and loving. Review | Forget greatness, enjoy the music: NSO revels in lyrical excess 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z “At first I wondered,” Mr. Langrée said of the 11th concerto, which opens the “Mozart Dances,” “why didn’t he take a more important piece? But actually, he showed everyone how wonderful this piece is.” Does Mozart Defy the Limits of Dance? Mark Morris Begs to Differ. 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z That was recognizably the musician who played the Dvorak concerto on Thursday: a charismatic protagonist and a generous collaborator in chamber-like passages. Review: The Cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason Makes an Entrance 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z Yet, there is little sense of conflict in Mr. Birtwistle’s concerto. Boston Symphony Shows Verve Even Without Levine 2011-03-16T06:11:47Z And there were too many nights when stirring Bach choral works, animated Mozart symphonies, intense Brahms concertos, diaphanous Debussy scores and more just sounded wan, and I felt restless in my seat. What I’ve Learned in 60 Years of Listening to the Philharmonic 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z The exciting young Latvian violinist Baiba Skride made a compelling case for Frank Martin's overlooked violin concerto, a work which she and Fischer have recently recorded. Northern Sinfonia/Fischer – review 2013-03-18T17:49:30Z Mr. Glass ends his concerto with a wistful slow movement. Review: Philip Glass Comes, Finally, to the New York Philharmonic 2017-09-24T04:00:00Z Four concertos from radio performances in the 1970s and ’80s show a fire and impulsiveness not always present later. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z “The clarity in the baton, in his expression and his gestures,” he said by phone two weeks ago, speaking of performing a new concerto for cello and choir written by Luna Pearl Woolf, Haimovitz’s wife. A polymath in D.C.: The long ascendancy of conductor-composer Julian Wachner Most of Bach’s harpsichord concertos, she explained, were composed initially for other instruments, often violin. Music Review: Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra at Zankel Hall ? Review 2011-11-21T23:08:19Z But I’d consider going straight to track four on this album, the latest in a series of Mozart concerto recordings featuring Ms. Uchida leading the Cleveland Orchestra from the piano. Classical Playlist: Dvorak, Haydn, Monteverdi and More 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z Without the distraction of the usual plot, the violinist Laura Ha, intense and energetic, stole most of the attention, unexpectedly transforming the work into a violin concerto. Music Review: Juilliard Students Perform in ChamberFest 2013-01-19T01:39:49Z In addition to conducting the works prominently, Bernstein recorded three of Nielsen’s six symphonies, as well as the flute and clarinet concertos, with the New York Philharmonic. Music Review: New York Philharmonic Plays Carl Nielsen Symphony 2012-06-15T21:52:06Z He was interested, he said, in writing “a proper piano concerto” — with a more traditional form than the idiosyncratic “In Seven Days.” A Pianist Has Cracked a Composer’s Code 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z A few years back he recorded both the Liszt concertos with Andrew Litton conducting the Bergen Philharmonic in a white heat that sounded improvised on the spot. Stephen Hough twists the kaleidoscope of Edvard Grieg’s moods 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z In 2010, Lewis became the first pianist to perform all five of Beethoven’s piano concertos in one season at London’s BBC Proms. Paul Lewis to play Beethoven with SSO April 17-19 2014-04-10T20:52:32Z The collection offers a rich variety of solo pieces, chamber works and concertos by Beethoven, Berio, Chopin, Mozart, Takemitsu, Stravinsky, Schoenberg and more — in probing, lucid, often exhilarating performances. A Critic and a Pianist, Close but Not Quite Friends 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z On the surface, Mr. Gergiev’s program offered a conventional mix of concerto, war horse and overfamiliar symphony. The Verbier Festival Revels in Mixing It Up 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z A court violinist and concertmaster in Salzburg, Austria, he composed five violin concertos in his youth. Music Review: Isabelle Faust Solos for Mostly Mozart 2013-08-11T21:27:23Z The first movement of the Bartok concerto — which has its roots in a chamber version for pianists and percussionists — builds from a murmuring, mystic opening to riotous ensemble play. Review: Two Debuts Make for a Week of Philharmonic Firsts 2022-11-18T05:00:00Z “The concerto is one of those pieces of Beethoven’s that really are a jewel,” says Hrusa by phone from Prague. Czech conductor will lead SSO in Beethoven ‘jewel’ 2013-05-23T20:27:07Z Mr. Goldstein recently recorded, with the Fine Arts Quartet, what is billed as the premiere recording of Lachner’s arrangement of the two concertos. Review: Parlor-Style Mozart From the Ariel Quartet 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z Like with Aimard and the concerto, he didn’t so much add on personality as make room for individuality. Beethoven speaks, boldly, with help from a French pianist in his Hollywood Bowl debut 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z He ended the first half of the program with his own piece “mar’eh,” a violin concerto that glides on gossamer wings for an unbroken 22 minutes, never touching land. Getting to know — or at least trying to — Matthias Pintscher at an L.A. Phil concert 2018-01-07T05:00:00Z Since then, he’s been a champion of the German composer, recording the complete cycle of concertos and sonatas, and even the bagatelles along the way. Irish pianist John O’Conor continues to show he’s a master of Beethoven 2015-04-19T04:00:00Z The composer, a highly skilled orchestrator, told the audience why he had at first resisted a commission to write a percussion concerto. Review: NY Phil Biennial’s Ambitious Wrap-Up, From Boulez to Bolcom 2016-06-12T04:00:00Z The Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra played the 1950s violin concerto “Serenade.” Leonard Bernstein at 100: Why the music world is making this the Year of Lenny 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z For the concert at Strathmore, presented by Washington Performing Arts, Fischer offered a traditional repertory program: an overture and concerto by Mozart and the incidental music to “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” by Felix Mendelssohn. Budapest Festival Orchestra at Strathmore 2015-01-24T05:00:00Z He also made the first recording of Stravinsky's avant-garde piano concerto entitled Movements, conducted by the composer. Charles Rosen obituary 2012-12-10T18:13:31Z Surprisingly, it was Brahms’s violin concerto that proved the least persuasive part of the program. Music Review: Joshua Bell Leads Academy of St. Martin in the Fields 2014-04-01T23:25:00Z The immensely enjoyable final concert of this year's Spitalfields Music winter festival was given over to selections from his string concertos and sacred music, performed by Christian Curnyn and his Early Opera Company. Early Opera Company – review 2012-12-20T18:26:27Z Two of the three works had never been played by the Philharmonic, and the centerpiece concerto, featuring the pianist Yuja Wang, hadn’t been on a subscription program since the 1980s. Review: An Audition Season Begins at the Philharmonic 2022-02-13T05:00:00Z His compositions included a symphony inspired by the writings of Henry David Thoreau, an opera set in Colonial America and a piano concerto incorporating bird calls. John LaMontaine, Composer, Dies at 93 2013-05-15T02:27:49Z You don’t have to know about the history of the concerto genre to “get” that this form involves a back-and-forth between a soloist and an orchestra. Curious About Classical Music? Here’s Where to Start 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z Named Robot K-456 — the reference is to a Mozart piano concerto — and now on loan from a German collection, it’s the first thing we see in the show, and it’s quite a sight. Nam June Paik’s Work at Asia Society 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z I then only got a B in my music A-level because one of the questions about the Berg violin concerto was so ridiculous I said so in my answer. Mark-Anthony Turnage: A life in music 2011-01-22T07:59:00Z Rana called it as revolutionary as concertos by Liszt and Robert Schumann, both of which it predates by over a decade. Clara Schumann and Florence Price Get Their Due at Carnegie Hall 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z Soon afterward he won an Istanbul State Symphony Orchestra concerto competition and played the Dvorák as his first professional engagement. Symphony cellist Efe Baltacigil takes on Dvorák concerto 2014-03-20T21:15:55Z As “Absolute Jest” now stands, Adams borrows from himself as a marvelous way into the concerto, which once more featured the St. Lawrence, cautiously amplified. A serious Beethoven in John Adams' latest 'Absolute Jest' 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z This time round, however, the concerto rightly brought the house down. Classical Philharmonia/Maazel/Trifonov – review 2012-12-14T17:30:01Z A conversational composition with glinting winds recalling French impressionism, plus lively marimba, vibraphone and Latin percussion, the piece avoids the long, virtuoso displays typical of many concertos, and integrates piano and orchestra well. Chick Corea and Seattle Symphony meld jazz and classical music with a dazzling performance 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z The 'Agathon' movement is particularly successful, and the concerto will show a very different composer that evening than the one of 'West Side Story.' Seattle Symphony opens season with Joshua Bell, former Gov. Dan Evans 2012-09-12T02:11:03Z On the program: the overture to “The Impresario,” the graceful oboe concerto with the soloist Liang Wang and the vivacious “Symphony No. 39.” Opera & Classical Music Listings for Dec. 19-25 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z In any case, despite the concertos’ dazzling inventiveness and eye-opening energy, no job offer was forthcoming. Music Review: Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Plays Bach 2013-12-17T22:02:05Z The concerto is renowned for its technical challenges, but Vondracek, technique easily in hand, mined it for its expressiveness and its subtleties. Review | Czech pianist Lukas Vondracek reunites with BSO’s Marin Alsop at Strathmore 2017-09-24T04:00:00Z But, he said, it was clear that Mozart conducted from the keyboard when performing his piano concertos or leading his operas. Jeffrey Kahane Conducts New York Philharmonic Using iPad 2011-11-23T23:13:25Z The Sibelius concerto has such a strong sense of motion with the ostinato, that repeated motif in the orchestra — almost like telephone poles against which you can measure the speed of the soloist. How Classical Music Can Help You Hear the Open Road 2021-01-13T05:00:00Z The Mozart concerto was chamber music on a high level. Mark Swed hits the road for a weekend of SoCal orchestra listening 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z If the orchestra generally seemed like an afterthought in the concerto, the players nonetheless seemed invigorated by the occasion. Music Review: Joshua Bell With Jeremy Denk at Mostly Mozart 2010-08-20T22:18:00Z Conductor Ling, who premiered the concerto when he was the San Diego Symphony’s music director, guided the orchestra through a colorful and intensely focused performance. Taipei Symphony makes Strathmore debut with pride and passion 2019-11-16T05:00:00Z Pianists consider it among the most technically demanding of all concertos. Music Review: Lang Lang?s Bartok With the New York Philharmonic - Review 2012-01-19T23:29:36Z The fifth and last of Beethoven’s landmark piano concertos gets a Seattle Symphony outing with French pianist Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, praised for his originality and flamboyance, as soloist. Look Ahead: The hottest Seattle events for January 2020 2019-12-27T05:00:00Z Programs began to resemble the standard format we know today with an overture and a concerto separated by an intermission from the second half’s symphony. Bar and Bathroom Lines, Molto Adagio 2014-04-18T20:59:14Z The soloist in the Beethoven concerto, Jonathan Biss, was smooth and subtle when the orchestra returned after his first-movement cadenza, but strangely muted elsewhere. Music Review: The New York String Orchestra at Carnegie Hall 2012-12-25T22:36:15Z Sometimes the piano broke into spiraling flourishes, like Ravel gone vehement, or arpeggio madness, like spliced-together outtakes from a recording of a Tchaikovsky concerto. Review: Andrew Norman’s ‘Split,’ a Teeming Premiere From the New York Philharmonic 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z But the passionate playing of the violinist James Ehnes in the Tchaikovsky concerto lulled listeners into a relative silence punctuated by enthusiastic bouts of clapping after virtuosic passages throughout the work. Music Review: New York Philharmonic in Central Park 2012-07-17T23:05:18Z At Lincoln Center, in New York, a performance of a new concerto for oud — an Arab lute — was scuttled when the Arab American soloist was detained for several days by immigration authorities. Would Donald Trump make art great again? 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z Given the ensemble’s full-blooded, dynamic playing of the two concertos after intermission, the first half of the concert, led by Ms. Kazovsky as first violinist, seemed curiously restrained. Review: Parlor-Style Mozart From the Ariel Quartet 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z In the Dvorak concerto, the cellist Gautier Capuçon battled valiantly to assert himself against an ensemble that seemed intent on belittling him. Memo to the New York Philharmonic: Louder Isn’t Better 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z In the early 20th century, concertos were sometimes performed in arrangements for piano and soloist, a rarity now. Review: Benjamin Beilman Goes Beyond His Violin Bonbons 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z He said, “I’m composing a clarinet concerto for you.” Leaving the NSO, a veteran clarinetist reflects on the orchestra’s ups and downs 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z Scored for two pianos, three wordless singers, wind instruments and percussion, it’s an everything-but-the-kitchen-sink concerto that gleefully tosses out notions of stylistic purity for the sake of big effects and a lingering ironic aftertaste. Music Review: Axiom, a Juilliard Ensemble, at Alice Tully Hall 2012-12-13T21:26:23Z Mr. Sorey insists in a program note that this is a “non-certo,” without a traditional concerto’s overt virtuosity, contrasting tempos or vivid interplay between soloist and ensemble. Tyshawn Sorey: The Busiest Composer of the Bleakest Year 2021-01-01T05:00:00Z Two pieces by Weill will bookend Adolphe’s concerto on the program. Jeffrey Kahane to end 20-year run as LACO conductor with his most ambitious project: a festival devoted to tolerance 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z To hear so much new to this ensemble — even Beethoven’s Second, while hardly a rarity, is probably the least played of his piano concertos — is a heartening sign of searching artistic leadership. Review: A Shostakovich Symphony Finally Reaches the Philharmonic 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z The D minor concerto, for which no earlier version is known, might have had a similar origin. Music Review: Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra at Zankel Hall ? Review 2011-11-21T23:08:19Z Three more concertos for the instrument followed over the years, reflecting a kaleidoscope of stylistic influences but also Mr. Koppel’s very distinct, melodically generous, language. Classical Playlist: Bach, Anders Koppel, Mahler and More 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z Lewis, a star former pupil of the now-retired Austrian pianist Alfred Brendel, has, like his great mentor, been widely praised for his performances and recordings of the Beethoven sonatas and concertos. Pianist Lewis launches cycle of Schubert's late keyboard works 2011-02-09T18:28:15Z “I don’t think he was playing the Mendelssohn violin concerto,” Mondie says. National Symphony Orchestra violist plays heirloom built by grandfather 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z It’s a resolution that the multiple modes of expression — ditsy, graceful, menacing — never do find in Stravinsky’s concerto. The Knights Play Stravinsky and Bartok in Central Park 2014-07-23T04:00:00Z Denk considers the music of Charles Ives "a big part" of his life, and Ives' four violin concertos are on the schedule. Jeremy Denk, in words and music 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z But it’s an apt form for one inspired by butterflies, as was the case with this colorful, nervous and at times alluringly ethereal concerto by the Russian composer Alexander Raskatov. Classical Playlist: Bach, Anders Koppel, Mahler and More 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z In this concerto the most important thing is the solo violin. Unsuk Chin on the Violin Concerto She Swore She’d Never Write 2022-03-13T05:00:00Z There were concertos for various instruments and concertante pieces including his Actaeon for orchestra and solo horn, and his Sonnets to Orpheus for orchestra and solo cello. Composer Sir Richard Rodney Bennett dies aged 76 2012-12-25T14:46:08Z "You don't play this or that snippet. If you get to the second round you play a concerto — on the stage, in a hall, with all musicians in the audience." Classical musicians and the terror of the audition 2014-07-13T04:00:00Z The cello, the one instrument of the three for which Beethoven did not write a concerto, leads all three movements, and Gautier Capucon's lyrical suavity was stellar. Everything goes right for Gustavo Dudamel in Beethoven program 2014-07-23T04:00:00Z Field wrote several piano concertos; what would be wrong with a movement or two from those? From ‘Danny Boy’ to uilleann pipes: A showcase of Irish music 2016-05-22T04:00:00Z But Mr. Luisi was game, and he proved himself in all of the American repertory, especially the Copland concerto. Music Review: Luisi Crosses Border To American Territory 2012-01-16T22:54:23Z After the concerts, as Mr. Zimerman told me in a 1997 interview, he sat down with Bernstein to find dates to record the first two Beethoven concertos, as well. In Praise of Bernstein as Conductor: Movement That Mesmerized 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z The Second is well known because it is basically a concerto for solo flute and strings. Academy of Ancient Music takes on Bach in Disney Hall debut 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z He happened to hear a recording of the French flautist Marcel Moyse playing a Mozart concerto. Richard Adeney obituary 2011-01-23T18:31:02Z On Friday the mood was festive for a program offering a look at what’s going on with American concertos these days. Review: NY Phil Biennial’s Ambitious Wrap-Up, From Boulez to Bolcom 2016-06-12T04:00:00Z But the NSO’s stance in this concerto was all about subtlety, and the performers remained ever vigilant about the soloist-orchestra balance. Review | For NSO, a subtle Tchaikovsky goes a long way 2018-07-15T04:00:00Z This colorful piece is the fourth part of Mr. Tan’s Martial Arts Cycle, a set of concertos based on his popular film scores. Music Review: New York Philharmonic Celebrates Lunar New Year 2014-02-02T22:29:54Z Yet Grime didn’t exploit two dynamic elements of the concerto form: dialogue between soloist and orchestra, and the dramatic potential of the individual juxtaposed against the crowd. Review | Percussion concerto offers less bang than whimper 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z Not Wagner but Mozart will accompany the Bruckner at Carnegie Hall, in the form of six piano concertos and two sinfonias concertante. A Long Party of Concerts to Celebrate Anton Bruckner 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z The work is practically a concerto for two oboes and bassoon, the only non-strings on stage. Review: Koopman, SSO go for Baroque 2011-05-14T17:08:05Z Bridging the two keyboard concertos with Stravinsky's orchestral Concerto in D was an inspired choice, revealing the influences of Bach and Mozart on the later composer's brand of neoclassicism. Britten Sinfonia/Hewitt ? review 2011-04-05T17:45:01Z The soloist in Beethoven's concerto was a young pianist, Sean Chen, who played everything with a crisp staccato attack that soon became predictable. Mark Swed hits the road for a weekend of SoCal orchestra listening 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z The leader and composer is playing to the team’s strengths, and the whole disk seems to be a concerto for the band. The World’s Greatest Living Jazz Composer Celebrates His Eighty-fifth Birthday 2018-08-25T04:00:00Z Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice abandoned international affairs for a Mozart piano concerto on Tuesday, teaming up with Soul legend Aretha Franklin to perform at a charity concert. Former top U.S. diplomat Rice opts for Mozart concerto 2010-07-28T04:14:00Z Bristling with virtuosic instrumental solos across the full range of the orchestral palette, it’s like a concerto grosso posing as a symphony. ‘Music for a Prince,’ an Artek Concert Focusing on Haydn 2015-01-04T05:00:00Z Last month, I recorded his cello concerto, and I was speaking to him only last Saturday. Elliott Carter remembered: 'Music seemed to erupt from his very being' 2012-11-06T18:41:42Z In Boston, 140 years ago this October, Hans von Bülow played the world premiere of Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1, a piece that within decades became the most popular concerto for piano ever written. Classical CDs: Gerstein, Gaffigan do justice to Tchaikovsky’s Concerto No. 1 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z In the first of two concerts, on Wednesday evening, he conducted the school’s symphony orchestra in a program featuring three pianists from its graduate program playing Mozart concertos. Philippe Entremont Conducts; Simone Dinnerstein Performs; Music by Ezequiel Vi?ao 2012-02-03T23:02:08Z On its surface this 24-minute piece is a bang-up virtuoso concerto in the grand style. Classical Recordings: POUL RUDERS 2011-06-10T14:29:27Z These concertos couldn't be more familiar, although they are more commonly handled by chamber orchestras or period instrument ensembles. Generous renditions of Mendelssohn and Bach balance youth and experience 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z In writing the concerto — his first venture into orchestral writing — Mr. Fleck had few precedents. Béla Fleck Joins the Knights at Pace University Show 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z The specific Mozart was the Rondo for Piano, K. 382, an alternate concerto ending that has found life in the concert hall as a stand-alone piece. Review: Trilling birds and a sedate waltz, expertly delivered by Serkin at the SSO 2011-02-11T23:25:06Z The 30-minute piece is a "virtuoso cello concerto but also a fascinating multimedia experience that defies simple classification," Marc Satterwhite, the award director, said in a statement. ArtsBeat: Dutch Composer Wins Grawemeyer Award 2012-11-26T03:00:14Z As staged in New York, the concerto will showcase two soloists — a violinist, Elizabeth Zeltser of the Philharmonic, and a percussionist, David Cossin — at the front of the stage. Watch Ping-Pong Make Its New York Philharmonic Debut 2018-02-19T05:00:00Z “There’s no question that the ‘Jeremiah’ symphony is a wonderful work, the violin concerto is wonderful,” Mauceri says. Perspective | Does Leonard Bernstein have any heirs? 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z Penderecki's concerto, premiered 13 years ago in Tokyo, vaguely follows the Baroque concerto grosso format of a small group of soloists in opposition to a large group of players. Concertos take the lead at L.A. Phil, L.A. Chamber Orchestra 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z There are 19th-century solo organ “symphonies” and rollicking organ concertos by Francis Poulenc, Aaron Copland and Lou Harrison, to name a few of the most extraordinary. Freeing the pipe organ from the usual grind 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z Mr. Ferrillo was out sick, and Ms. Rowe did not join until the second half of the program, so they did not play in the Mozart concerto. Review: Lang Lang, Classical Music’s Superstar, Returns Quietly 2018-07-08T04:00:00Z The new concerto emerged from a collaboration with violinist Daniel Hope, who is the soloist for the premiere. Gabriel Prokofiev debuts concerto 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z But in what some call the current meteorological conditions earthquake weather, such sonic tomfoolery imparted a diverting immediacy to an otherwise archaic concerto. The Philharmonic dances through Bach and bluegrass at the Bowl 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z After a lethargic and at times undisciplined account of Schumann's Overture, Scherzo and Finale, the most substantial item was Christian Zacharias's studied account of the A minor piano concerto. Prom 12: BBC Philharmonic/Vassily Sinaisky 2010-07-26T21:15:00Z Chalifour played the concerto almost as one of the orchestra, not as a flamboyant soloist needing to stamp every instance with ego. Beethoven sounds a defiant tone at the Bowl 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z He entered the Franz Liszt Academy of Music, making his recital debut at 11; at 14 he played the Dvorak concerto with a symphony orchestra on a few hours’ notice. Janos Starker, Master Cellist, Dies at 88 2013-04-30T15:05:06Z Over the next few years, Cliburn's international popularity continued as he recorded pieces ranging from Mozart to a concerto by American Edward McDowell. Van Cliburn, American classical pianist, dies 2013-02-27T17:19:28Z What happens when one of the world's best-known violinists plays one of the world's best-known violin concertos? Review: In Itzhak Perlman's hands, Mendelssohn steals the show 2011-01-31T22:00:07Z His own output included nine operas, eight symphonies and 12 instrumental concertos, as well as chamber music and choral works. Einojuhani Rautavaara, Composer, Dies at 87; His Lush Music Found Wide Appeal 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z There are only hints in this youthful concerto of the wild-eyed visionary Scriabin would become in later years. A Star Pianist Brings Soft-Spoken Virtuosity to Scriabin 2019-11-28T05:00:00Z By adding motifs that reappear throughout the concerto, Davis made it a substantially more cohesive work. 'Concerto for a Genius' shows promise, but needs more fire from the piano 2011-01-16T15:56:00Z A movement from one of his Mozart piano concertos is included in a 2005 compilation called “For the Discriminating Man.” Music Review: The Pianist Radu Lupu at Carnegie Hall 2013-01-26T00:49:58Z Berg, after all, was Schoenberg’s disciple, and his concerto combines Schoenberg’s 12-tone method with a current of Romanticism that ties it to the Brahms. Music Review | New York Philharmonic: At Avery Fisher Hall, Modernism and Egyptian Mythology 2010-03-19T22:13:00Z What new directions, Magnus, did you take with this new piano concerto? A Lifelong Friendship’s Latest Chapter: A Concerto Premiere 2022-10-12T04:00:00Z The composer has just got back from Turkey, where the Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic Orchestra has been rehearsing the concerto. Gabriel Prokofiev debuts concerto 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z Garrick Ohlsson plays Brahms’s complete works for solo piano over four programs; Paul Lewis joins the orchestra for all five Beethoven piano concertos. Singing Will Return to Tanglewood This Summer 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z And he has certainly proven himself with traditional programming, as when he conducted the 27 Mozart concertos from the keyboard over a single season with the Geneva Chamber Orchestra. A Pianist Loses Himself in a Musical ‘Labyrinth’ 2020-11-15T05:00:00Z This concert marked Nigel Kennedy's return to what he describes as "probably the greatest violin concerto of them all", namely the Brahms. RPO/Litton/Kennedy – review 2012-06-14T17:13:25Z “Don Quixote” is a virtual cello concerto in the guise of a symphonic poem. Barenboim brings West-Eastern Divan to D.C. for the first time 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z Just as at the beginning of the Mozart concerto at Avery Fisher, he phrased the start of the Schubert with a coyness that verged on archness before gradually relaxing: the formal turning confessional. Paul Lewis Plays Mozart and Schubert at Mostly Mozart 2013-08-08T23:12:58Z And elements of her concerto subtly inform his Fourth Symphony — in its through-composition and fantasia form, in its Romanze second movement and in a first one characterized by its abandonment of the traditional recapitulation. Review: Gustavo Dudamel Wraps Up a Philharmonic Audition 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z Carter scored his antiphonal concerto for piano and harpsichord soloist, with each accompanied by a small chamber orchestra. Music Review: American Soundscapes Ensemble at Carnegie Hall 2013-04-29T20:31:54Z Mr. Trifonov has justly rocketed to New York omnipresence, and has become a fixture at the Philharmonic, including a memorable traversal of Rachmaninoff’s concertos in 2015. The Philharmonic’s New Season: What Our Critics Want to Hear 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z At first glance, the program that the Philadelphia Orchestra presented at Carnegie Hall on Friday appeared perfectly conservative: a Brahms symphony, a Haydn concerto, the suite from “Der Rosenkavalier” by Richard Strauss. Yannick Nézet-Séguin Leads the Philadelphia Orchestra at Carnegie 2014-12-07T05:00:00Z But then, in Lewis's music room, underneath precious facsimile opies of autograph manuscripts of Schubert sonatas and Beethoven concertos, I spy a Lewis original, one of his own handwritten pieces. Five difficult pieces 2010-04-22T22:00:00Z As the tour rollicks on, its tone — and Wang’s demeanor — morphs with each stop, like a concerto building to its crescendo. Piano virtuoso Yuja Wang could have gone anywhere for this interview. She chose ... Universal Studios? 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z Again, the intended balance between solo and orchestra cannot be fully known, but Chalifour avoided the notion that a classical concerto represented the individual against the masses, something that is prevalent in Beethoven performance. Beethoven sounds a defiant tone at the Bowl 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z Culver City Symphony Orchestra Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 4, “Italian,” plus piano concertos by Chopin and Mozart and more. The week ahead in L.A. classical music, Oct. 29-Nov. 5: Moscow State Symphony Orchestra and more 2017-10-29T04:00:00Z Mr. Kavakos, playing with an entrancing combination of sweet sound and dark intensity, captured both the autumnal warmth and the restless energy of this deeply personal concerto. Music Review: Philadelphia Orchestra, With Nézet-Séguin, at Carnegie Hall 2013-01-18T21:50:44Z The cello, playing animated and often melodic lines, dominates, with not much competitive back-and-forth with the orchestra in the way of most concertos of that period. Two Russian Tours, One Led by Evgeny Kissin, the Other by the American Symphony Orchestra 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z Advocates of Kirchner’s First Piano Concerto consider it one of the finest works in the genre since the Bartok concertos, yet it rarely turns up in performance. Leon Kirchner CD With Piano Concerto No. 1 and ?Lily? 2011-10-29T04:30:09Z Performed without a break, the concerto is in three sections, set off by two completely improvised cadenzas. A 'beast' of new Icelandic music will premiere tonight at the Hollywood Bowl 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z And if everybody meets the challenge, this concerto becomes a big spaceship: complicated, luminous and nonsensical, taking off and flying to Neverland. The Rest is Noise festival: what's your favourite piece of 20th-century music? 2012-11-29T20:00:02Z Gabriel Prokofiev, the grandson of the 20th Century composer Sergei Prokofiev, is presenting the world premiere of his new violin concerto at the BBC Proms. Gabriel Prokofiev debuts concerto 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z Today Mr. Kutik, now 28, is a concert violinist whose schedule is studded with the standard virtuosic fare: This spring he will perform concertos by Sibelius, Tchaikovsky and Prokofiev with orchestras across the United States. Critic’s Notebook: Yevgeny Kutik Is to Play ‘Music From the Suitcase’ 2014-03-18T22:10:54Z Pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet easily tamed the daunting passages in the outer movements of the Ravel concerto, in dialogue with a few birds inspired by the more twittering parts. National Symphony Orchestra shines in quiet moments at Wolf Trap "I've just finished the first movement of a concerto for the cello!! Don't be surprised," Dvorak wrote to a friend in autumn 1894. Weilerstein brings Dvorak to Proms 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z His recordings included Stravinsky’s ballet music with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo; Dvorak symphonies with the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra; and Mozart violin concertos with Ms. Fischer and the Netherlands Chamber Orchestra. Yakov Kreizberg, Orchestral Conductor, Dies at 51 2011-04-11T22:49:58Z He has performed his share of concertos with orchestras; a Naïve recording offers elegant accounts of two Mozart concertos, with Mr. Greilsammer conducting the Suedama Ensemble from the keyboard. David Greilsammer and H J Lim, Pianists Stepping Out 2012-08-26T02:43:13Z The musicians seemed inspired to be performing this concerto with Mr. Bronfman, who is going with them to Europe. 2010-01-09T01:00:00Z Bartok wrote this concerto in 1945, the year he died, while he was gravely ill. Music Review: Mostly Mozart Festival with Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Shai Wosner 2012-08-12T19:54:07Z The Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, currently touring the United States, brought a concerto for sheng to its performance at Benaroya Hall Monday night. Seoul Philharmonic introduces beauty of the sheng 2012-04-17T19:11:03Z "It is a keyboard concerto with flashing lights, an explosion which sets off a whole tradition that runs right through Beethoven and all the great Romantic things of Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninov." Century-bending works and wine at SSO this weekend 2011-10-27T20:18:05Z Though Mr. Ratmansky’s new “Shostakovich Trilogy” at American Ballet Theater yields further subtleties at each viewing, it’s this “Concerto DSCH,” set to Shostakovich’s second piano concerto, that remains this choreographer’s most perfect work. Dance Review: Stravinsky and Tchaikovsky at New York City Ballet 2013-06-06T20:20:40Z But the Walt Disney Concert Hall run will be the first time she’ll tackle the vastly different cycle of three concertos in one engagement. Piano virtuoso Yuja Wang could have gone anywhere for this interview. She chose ... Universal Studios? 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z Music is the starting point for Morris' dances, and German composer Paul Hindemith's 1925 cello concerto, Kammermusik No. 3, is no exception. PNB's 'All Premiere': 4 new works, including 1 by Mark Morris 2012-10-24T20:52:05Z The concerto seeks to reconcile in its single long span an introverted, blues-inflected expressiveness with a freer, unselfconsciously flowing idiom. Bangor New Music festival | Classical review 2010-03-29T21:00:00Z All sections of the orchestra had a chance to shine in this piece, a kind of concerto for orchestra, and they did, with Mr. Penderecki leading a tightly wrought, polished and dramatic interpretation. Music Review: Penderecki Conducts His Work at Carnegie Hall 2010-05-02T20:59:00Z For Mozart, she ventured just a touch over the border of tasteful elegance, which is exactly where the concerto belongs and seldom is. It's nice to have L.A. Phil 'family' like Yuja Wang, Salonen 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z I promised to send him a YouTube of the complete Vivaldi concertos. Beverly Hills teacher finds violin and Vivaldi in a time of war 2014-11-01T04:00:00Z The heady dream of their silent concerto is magnified by their ghostly superimpositions. SAM exhibition shows why Seattle’s Imogen Cunningham is one of the leading photographers of her time 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z Like a de facto piano concerto, Hummel’s septet bustles with rippling passagework, decorative scales, cascading arpeggios and, in the rustic finale, bursts of dancing octaves. Review: The Quietly Cosmic Sound of Desert Stillness 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z Serenissima planned their all-Vivaldi programme well, opening with a handful of routine concertos and closing with a striking performance of The Four Seasons. La Serenissima ? review 2011-01-27T21:45:01Z She figures, he says, in his interpretation of the Dvorák: “The emotional range of this concerto is so vast, and she makes a wonderful centerpiece for my idea.” Symphony cellist Efe Baltacigil takes on Dvorák concerto 2014-03-20T21:15:55Z His two piano concertos deploy the sectional single-movement form that Liszt favoured. Lyapunov: Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 2; Rhapsody on Ukrainian Themes ? review 2011-01-13T21:30:00Z Where Tchaikovsky’s concerto dazzles with surface-level pyrotechnics, Mozart’s calls for more understated virtuosity. Review: Lang Lang, Classical Music’s Superstar, Returns Quietly 2018-07-08T04:00:00Z The dancers also humanized the Adams concerto, warming up a cerebral, often astringent score. Jessica Lang Dance, Leila Josefowicz and the NSO, waltzing together onstage I don’t have to invent the concerto as a sort of individual-collective setup. A Lifelong Friendship’s Latest Chapter: A Concerto Premiere 2022-10-12T04:00:00Z Kian Soltani made an extraordinary debut with the National Symphony Orchestra last March, making a strong performance into something inimitable by adding his own unusual cadenzas to a Haydn concerto. The bar was set high for Austrian cellist Kian Soltani, and his latest recital delivered 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z Southampton University researcher Andrew Woolley uncovered the work – part of a missing quartet of concertos. Vivaldi flute concerto discovered 2010-10-07T09:26:00Z At his recent performance of the concerto at LSO St Luke's, he played with a live camera linkup so you could see his hands on screen – standard practice for battling. Gabriel Prokofiev gets the Proms into the groove 2011-07-28T20:29:01Z Mr. Greilsammer, who also plays standard fare like the complete Mozart piano concertos and sonatas splendidly, is hardly asserting that all recital programs should follow this model. Review: Searching for a Path Out of a Musical Labyrinth 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z The performances were unremarkable except for in the concerto, with Mr. Bronfman’s seemingly effortless romps up and down the keyboard and Eric Bartlett’s fine cello solos. Review: The New York Philharmonic and a Quilt of Composers 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z Perry’s “Study” felt connected — across the Beethoven concerto and the intermission that followed — to Shostakovich’s Ninth Symphony, another work whose swaths of high spirits are tinged with a bit too much aggression, a clenched grin. Review: The Philharmonic’s Conductor Returns to His Perch 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z He has visions of another piece for a longtime collaborator, the cellist Yo-Yo Ma, and he is planning his first proper piano concerto. John Williams, Hollywood’s Maestro, Looks Beyond the Movies 2022-02-08T05:00:00Z Instead we were left with German music written within a less than 30-year span in the second half of the 19th century and a disappointing Schumann concerto. In Costa Mesa, the New York Philharmonic runs through the routine 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z And while plenty of composers talk about how they have thought about the tradition when they write a new concerto, few have placed themselves in it with such breathtaking ease as Mr. Adès does here. Two Coasts, Two Concertos: Adès and Adams Offer Piano Premieres 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z Let’s say you pick Beethoven’s fifth piano concerto, called the Emperor Concerto. Perspective | The best way to understand a Beethoven concerto? From a musician’s point of view. 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z Chen played the rest of the first movement on Geller’s violin, before receiving his repaired instrument — a Stradivarius — back, and playing the rest of the concerto on his own violin. Watch what happens when star soloist Ray Chen’s violin string breaks while performing with Seattle Symphony 2021-11-06T04:00:00Z Before the Thursday concert’s second half, McGill dropped by the lobby and appreciated some of the Bartok concerto, before suiting up to get onstage. Review: Two Debuts Make for a Week of Philharmonic Firsts 2022-11-18T05:00:00Z The premiere of a percussion concerto for the Utah Symphony, originally scheduled for the spring of 2014, was delayed until a few weeks ago. Andrew Norman on Loving ‘Star Wars’ and Pushing Musical Boundaries 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z Performing that concerto requires assembling a battery of percussion, including some exotic instruments, which may account for its rarity in performance. America’s Quintessential Maverick Composer, at 100 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z The orchestra, under Music Director Christopher Zimmerman’s baton, achieved a synchronous and responsive partnership with Schimpf, blending so effortlessly that the concerto took on the operatic quality of an aria. Fairfax Symphony Orchestra gives grand season opener He wrote at least 10 concertos and more than 40 sonatas for the instrument. Music Review: The New York Philharmonic With Riccardo Muti and Carter Brey 2010-04-15T22:16:00Z Some of these touches may have been exaggerations, but they yielded dramatic, incisive performances that left you wishing the ensemble had played all 12 concertos. Music Review: 6 Vivaldis, One of Them Arranged by Bach 2010-08-31T20:48:00Z He wrote an oboe concerto that our first oboist played; it’s a wonderful work. Leaving the NSO, a veteran clarinetist reflects on the orchestra’s ups and downs 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z This concerto incorporates themes from four of his scores: “Another Dawn,” “Juarez,” “Anthony Adverse” and “The Prince and the Pauper.” A Beethoven Teaser and a Rare ‘Cyrano’ 2014-11-22T05:00:00Z While we wait for that, starting this weekend there’s a chance to hear “Su,” a concerto for sheng, a Chinese mouth organ, which premiered in 2009; Wu Wei is the soloist. 6 Classical Music Concerts to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z When Cleveland tours, it’s known for eschewing star-driven concertos: The orchestra is the star. Review: At the Philharmonic, a Strauss Humblebrag 2020-02-28T05:00:00Z He took nothing for granted in his playing on Sunday, returning the concerto to its radical, revolutionary roots. Lucerne festival goes Lupu for Brahms 2011-08-15T16:19:09Z The evening's concerto was Friedrich Gulda's for cello, scored for an orchestra of woodwinds and brass with one double-bass and a small rhythm section. Morlot debuts with charisma, substance 2011-09-18T18:59:45Z Most moving, perhaps, is “Mr. Botibol,” the saga of a lifelong failure who finds unexpected fulfillment and connection in pretending to conduct the great symphonies and concertos of Beethoven and Chopin. Roald Dahl’s Twisted, Overlooked Stories for Adults 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z She closes the piece with a flourishing Beethoven-like concerto ending, having traveled through three key changes and four time signature changes. Toni Morrison: First Lady of Letters 2019-02-26T05:00:00Z He played as one with the small orchestra, not in conversation with it, a tactic more useful in the E Major concerto than the A Minor. Generous renditions of Mendelssohn and Bach balance youth and experience 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z Few violin concertos are as tightly scripted as those making up Vivaldi’s “Four Seasons.” Music Review: Europa Galante Brings Vivaldi to Zankel Hall 2014-02-12T22:55:33Z To date, you have performed about 90 new works for mandolin, premiering 15 concertos. In his Hollywood Bowl debut, Avi Avital aims to reshape the sound of classical music 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z Before that, on Friday and Saturday, Jeffrey Kahane conducts and plays a far more ordinary program of symphonies and piano concertos by Mozart. Classical & Opera Listings for June 5-11 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z Ms. Jansen chose Bruch’s concerto, a staple of the repertory, for this appearance with the pre-eminent orchestra of her homeland. Review: Concertgebouw Orchestra Shows Off Its Legacy at Carnegie 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z Titled “The Mysteries of Light,” this 25-minute concerto is written in five sections to match the structure, and ritual, of the rosary. Review: Stéphane Denève Leads the Philharmonic in What Feels Like an Audition 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z There are symphonies, concertos, operas and much chamber music. Liminar makes Mexico's Carrillo look like the next great rediscovery 2015-12-13T05:00:00Z Works like “Quartet Plus Four” for jazz quartet and string quartet, and “Peace Movement,” a concerto for guitar and orchestra, were performed internationally and widely praised. Jim Hall, Jazz Guitarist, Dies at 83 2013-12-11T03:50:57Z He played this concerto with a marvelous serenity, reflecting the confident awareness that neither he nor Mozart had anything to prove; mastery, in their respective spheres, was simply taken for granted. Impressive guest turn by symphony’s former principal horn |Classical review 2013-05-03T18:32:51Z Playing a solo piano concerto, in your first concert in years, is nerve-racking enough; now imagine opening your score and finding the promise that you’ll pay for a single false note with your life. ‘Definition Please,’ ‘Cyrus’ and More Streaming Gems 2022-10-19T04:00:00Z That fluidity — a tensile, elongated stretch and flow — along with Mr. Scarlett’s keen feel for inventive pas de deux work, was immediately apparent in the piece, which is set to Poulenc’s organ concerto. Liam Scarlett Creates a Work for City Ballet 2014-01-24T19:41:14Z On Thursday night, the program offered Tchaikovsky’s first two piano concertos with two young Russian-born soloists, both under 30 and both prizewinners in major competitions. First night of SSO ‘Tckaikfest’ a runaway hit 2014-01-17T19:05:59Z Still, this concerto requires differentiation between the many allusions and influences that Shostakovich crams together. Osmo Vanska Conducts the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra 2014-08-10T04:00:00Z For all its familiarity, this concerto remains a mysterious and unconventional work. Review: At New York Philharmonic, a Soloist but Not His Violin 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z She has played the Schumann concerto hundreds, if not thousands, of times. Martha Argerich mesmerizes the L.A. Phil 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z Apart from the clarinet and cello concertos, his best-known works are all vocal, either choral pieces or solo songs and his greatest inspiration came from his deep love and understanding of poetry. Gerald Finzi: the quiet man of British classical music 2011-01-27T23:41:00Z And the soloist in the concerto is the brilliant and probing young Italian pianist Beatrice Rana, in her Philharmonic debut. The Philharmonic’s New Season: What We Want to Hear 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z The orchestral writing in his two piano concertos is mostly stolid and uninspired. Music Review: A Chopin Competition Winner Collects Her Reward 2011-01-05T23:15:23Z A coda following the concerto may not tie up the larger themes of genius and insanity but does resolve some relationships in the way you would expect from a melodrama set in 1958. ‘Good Night, Oscar’ Review: Sean Hayes With Demerol and Cadenzas 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z In fact, the architecture of the Pantheon inspired one of Akiho’s breakthrough works, “Beneath Lighted Coffers,” a concerto for steel pan. Metal pipes, a cigar box and more feature in ambitious multimedia concert of Northwest composer Andy Akiho 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z When Andsnes has appeared at the hall, it’s been in Brahms’s Piano Quartets, the Grieg concerto with the Boston Symphony and a “Rite of Spring” as a duo with Marc-André Hamelin. ‘The Great Czech Piano Cycle’ Arrives at Carnegie Hall 2023-01-29T05:00:00Z That the double concerto happened to be commissioned by the L.A. With his L.A. Phil program, here's what a man of mystery portends for New York 2017-03-11T05:00:00Z Here she premieres percussion concerto, riSE and fLY. This week's new live music 2012-10-05T23:05:18Z "The second concerto was not often played 20 or 30 years ago, at the beginning of my career," he says. Renowned pianist to play once-again-popular Prokofiev concerto with Seattle Symphony 2010-09-16T22:21:00Z But in concertos by composers as varied as Mozart, Rachmaninoff and Prokofiev, whether for violinist or pianist, the soloists recede a bit too thoroughly into the orchestral textures. Geffen and Gustavo: Mixed Boons for the New York Philharmonic 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z “The concerto, within the context of my pop songs, is just another song,” he says. Ben Folds, unlikely poster boy for orchestras, brings millennials to late-night series 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z She began the G major concerto with a classical arpeggio flourish that only emphasised the ideal weighting of the famous opening solo chords that followed. Britten Sinfonia/Hewitt – review 2013-01-17T17:48:32Z Written a decade ago when the composer’s wife was dying of cancer, the concerto takes its inspiration from Brahms’ final accommodation with death, his “Four Serious Songs.” Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra serves up a sandwich of sad and sweet 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z He played the well-worn concerto as if it had been freshly invented: all flowing lines and an effortless lyricism, nailing each pitch dead center, and creating a succession of breathtaking little expressive moments. Review: Violinist Augustin Hadelich’s Halloween night concert with Seattle Symphony was all treats, no tricks 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z The novelty of the program, and in the end its most substantial draw, was the Bartok concerto, with Glenn Dicterow, the Philharmonic concertmaster, as the soloist. Music Review: Philharmonic Returns to New York; Glenn Dicterow Is Soloist 2012-05-21T21:48:51Z If there was a highlight, it was Caroline Shaw’s self-effacing violin concerto, “Lo,” with the composer as soloist. The Shift Festival: A Reincarnation, With Cherry Blossoms 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z After the world premiere of the concerto in Gothenburg, Sweden, in May, he said she offered only this piece of advice: “Sound more like a bird.” Unsuk Chin Talks About Her Music and Influences 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z Yet in the wayward hands of young soloist Jan Lisiecki, the concerto proved to be the most disappointing part of an uneven night. In BSO debuts, young pianist Jan Lisiecki stumbles as conductor Paul Goodwin shines 2017-03-12T05:00:00Z He introduced me to the concerto when I was 19. ‘It Has It All’: Taking on a Strange, Immense Piano Concerto 2023-06-20T04:00:00Z A huge, happy audience and lots of standing ovations: that’s what you get when you program concerts packed with popular piano concertos, played by exciting young prizewinners. First night of SSO ‘Tckaikfest’ a runaway hit 2014-01-17T19:05:59Z The concerto was certainly a program highlight: the Russian-born Gluzman plays with a big, powerful tone of tremendous intensity and great expressive range. Vadim Gluzman delivers power and passion with SSO | Classical review 2013-03-15T16:59:25Z Rana projects an underlying calm command, a grounded quality, with the concerto’s different moods on human scale. Review: Beatrice Rana Plays Tchaikovsky at Human Scale 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z He conceived of “Terminals,” a suite of concertos for So Percussion and five improvisers, after being struck by the similarity between airport terminal maps and stage diagrams of drum equipment. Drummers’ Choices: Setting the Beat, Calling the Tune 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z The two others, on Thursday and Saturday, featured the Scottish pianist Steven Osborne, who was the soloist in a Mozart concerto in the orchestral concerts on Friday and Saturday evenings. Review: Steven Osborne Is Joined by 2 Collaborators at Kaplan Penthouse 2015-08-09T04:00:00Z Saturday’s program pays homage to Bach with a harpsichord concerto, a cantata and an orchestral suite. Classical Music Listings for Sept. 9-15 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z This concerto is a boldly unconventional piece, composed in 1928, three years before Nielsen’s death at 66. New York Philharmonic Responds to Attacks in Paris 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z Participants reported feeling more alert while the Spring concerto was playing, and the EEGs suggest the music impacted “two distinct cognitive processes,” according to Riby. Study: Vivaldi boosts mental vitality 2013-03-13T21:38:00Z The schmaltz and sentimentality that often clog this concerto were largely cleared away. Music Review: New York Philharmonic Plays Bruch and Bruckner 2013-01-10T22:16:29Z She was so taken by the piece that she told the ensemble’s Finnish music director, Mikko Franck, that she wanted to commission another concerto from him. A Composer’s Notes Echo After His Death 2021-03-05T05:00:00Z Last year, in Chicago, he unveiled one result of his labors: a cello concerto, written for Yo-Yo Ma. Classical Music’s Chief Visionary Goes West Again 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z Mary Halvorson was devising a wobbly, questioning concerto on guitar, and the rest of the band fell quiet. Review: Delivering a Touch of Big Band Through a Jazz Collective 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z This concerto wanders, dreamlike, fluttering and — in the second part — dancing, its energy infectious. Kaija Saariaho: 11 Essential Works 2023-06-02T04:00:00Z Alexander Prior was 16 when he travelled the world to find the most promising young players to perform a concerto he would write for them. Alexander Prior: Velesslavitsa 2010-06-05T23:05:00Z Compared with “Skies of America,” Mr. Coleman’s engagingly unruly orchestral magnum opus from 1972, Mr. Moore’s concerto is more conventional in structure and temperament. Music Review: New Juilliard Ensemble in 2 Premieres - Review 2011-09-25T21:55:41Z And he spoke of the “very special experience” of beginning to tape the concertos with Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Philadelphia Orchestra, the band Rachmaninoff himself recorded with. Daniil Trifonov, New to Rachmaninoff, but a Bold and Youthful Echo 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z The old story is that he nearly scrapped the concerto project. Violin star Gil Shaham to bring Mozart concerto to Seattle 2012-10-17T18:53:05Z Ms. Batiashvili charmed with this work in New York as recently as last year, and the concerto has appeared in four of the Philharmonic’s past six seasons. Rouse’s World Premiere and Batiashvili Plays Brahms 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z His visit brings a welcome revival of “Two Paths,” a gravely beautiful 1998 concerto for two violas by the Russian composer Sofia Gubaidulina. The Week Ahead: April 10 ? 16 2011-04-08T13:57:40Z In the 1920s, it belonged to a young violinist named Harry Ben Gronsky, who studied with Efrem Zimbalist and once played the Bruch concerto at the Hollywood Bowl. Her 300-year-old instrument was in perfect condition. Had it been interred? 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z Potential confusion will be offset by the fact that “The Four Seasons” and “Buenos Aires” are a series of concertos for solo violin and chamber orchestra, and different soloists will handle each one. Send 2016 on its way with ‘Four Seasons,’ Seattle Symphony and 2 tango dancers 2016-12-23T05:00:00Z There’s a violin concerto and another very famous one for piano. 8 Ways to Better Enjoy the Nutcracker 2011-12-21T19:26:35Z The Prokofiev concerto got an unusual performance as well. London Philharmonic Orchestra's Jurowski a hypnotic force 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z The collection begins with a demonstrative recording of Berg's modern violin concerto, and it moves into a lyrically bopping take on Stravinsky's. Rethinking Itzhak Perlman on the eve of his 70th birthday 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z The orchestra’s contribution to the concerto was similarly energetic and polished, but the performance as a whole bogged down at times. Music Review: Yannick Nézet-Séguin at Mostly Mozart Festival 2012-08-05T21:43:45Z Those today who view religion negatively sometimes go even further and view Bach’s church cantatas as essentially instrumental concertos, with the religious texts more or less extraneous. There’s More Religion Than You Think in Bach’s ‘Brandenburgs’ 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z The concerto is the SSO’s most significant new commission by an American composer this season. Seattle Symphony unveils a new, custom concerto 2017-03-12T05:00:00Z Mr. Biss traces his history at the hall to a prenatal experience: his mother, the violinist Miriam Fried, played a concerto there with the Cleveland Orchestra when she was pregnant with him in 1980. The Way to Carnegie Hall? Success 2011-01-14T20:17:09Z Somehow, he added, she even once managed to milk a full and acoustically rich sound from a 19th-century piano while performing a Beethoven concerto. Hear the Martha Argerich Recordings That Inspired 8 Young Pianists 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z Yes, Beethoven’s concerto is one you might never go a season without hearing. Music Review: New York Philharmonic, Featuring Frank Peter Zimmermann 2012-01-27T22:43:12Z Based on that, you could consider her reach extending to Grieg’s and Rachmaninoff’s first concertos, which echo Robert Schumann’s. Clara Schumann and Florence Price Get Their Due at Carnegie Hall 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z The concerto will receive its West Coast premiere on Jan. 21 and 22 by the L.A. 'I Will Not Remain Silent': Music gives voice to the fight for equality 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z Not that the concerto ever suffers neglect there. Music Review: Mariinsky Orchestra, Valery Gergiev and Daniil Trifonov - Review 2011-10-13T20:20:50Z The cello emerges as the first among equals in this concerto. Review: Ligeti Forward Celebrates a Master Modern Composer 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z It’s a kind of double concerto, then, in which two solo forces have a relationship to one another and to the main ensemble. Review: A Concerto Makes Two Soloists a Many-Tentacled Creature 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z After the concerto, meanwhile, the encores went on into the night. RPO/Litton/Kennedy – review 2012-06-14T17:13:25Z On Monday, Mr. Andsnes and the ensemble offer Beethoven’s second, third and fourth concertos, with Mr. Andsnes conducting from the keyboard. For This Musician, the Time Has Come 2015-02-21T05:00:00Z The concerto was part of a program of repertory standards by Slavic composers. Music in Review 2011-04-09T00:11:04Z The concertos are sublime, all perfectly balanced and wonderful. Ingrid Matthews says farewell to Seattle Baroque Orchestra 2012-10-04T20:04:07Z Ms. Pantastico excelled in the concerto’s outer movements, where the upward sweep of a leg or the downward tap of a toe showed her uncannily at one with Michael Jinsoo Lim’s solo violin. Review: Pacific Northwest Ballet and Three by Balanchine 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z Tuneful, harmonically accessible concertos by Copland and Michael Daugherty held the middle ground. Music Review: American Composers Orchestra, at Zankel Hall 2012-03-25T21:32:27Z It is a concerto in which the upbeat is more important than the downbeat, rhythmically but not necessarily emotionally. Gustavo Dudamel celebrates his 36th birthday with some Schoenberg 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z The Prokofiev piano concertos are, like his symphonies, an uneven bunch. CD reviews: Cliburn medalist takes on Prokofiev with Fort Worth Symphony 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z Rachmaninoff intended this concerto to be a magnum opus. Review: Leif Ove Andsnes Blazes Out a Rachmaninoff Rarity 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z The current season includes works as diverse as Schnittke's viola concerto, Hindemith's cello concerto, Takemitsu's Requiem and Charles Ives's The Unanswered Question. How Marin Alsop plans to put São Paulo Orchestra on the map 2012-08-14T18:00:02Z And this gray was still so calm, composed, beautiful, like he was about to play a concerto or something. Take it from the youngest winner of the toughest horse race: "We all have a bold mode" 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z Even as symphonies and other works for soloist and orchestra kept coming from the Bolcom workshop, no new piano concerto followed — a peculiar development, given his own stature as a keyboardist. Decades Later, a Composer Revisits the Piano Concerto 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z Its centerpiece is Dvorák’s Cello Concerto, the Czech composer’s final concerto — and Baltacigil, a marvelous player, brings some deep background to it. Symphony cellist Efe Baltacigil takes on Dvorák concerto 2014-03-20T21:15:55Z Disconcertingly, this concerto features outer movements that are slow, and a central one that’s fast, in reverse of the norm. Dance Review: Three Twists on Classical Style, in Movement and in Character 2011-05-18T22:15:22Z Perlman, who recorded the concerto for EMI 21 years ago, doesn't need to prove anything at this stage in his distinguished career. Review: In Itzhak Perlman's hands, Mendelssohn steals the show 2011-01-31T22:00:07Z Today, I still know only a fraction of the nearly 500 pieces of Schütz’s that survive: motets, madrigals, sacred concertos, oratorios and more. Before Bach, He Was Germany’s Greatest Composer 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z Schiff’s most characterful work, though, was in the Rondo finale, in which he rendered the cadenza as a grander conclusion, interjecting the “Don Giovanni” chords, then layering the overture and the concerto in clever counterpoint. Review: The Philharmonic’s Artist in Residence Wears Two Hats 2023-04-16T04:00:00Z Leonidas Kavakos must be wondering if he will ever get to play the concerto Osvaldo Golijov is writing for him, which remains unfinished more than 18 months after its planned premiere. LSO/Bychkov/Kavakos – review 2012-11-26T13:36:10Z It is one of only a handful of concertos she tends to play these days. Martha Argerich mesmerizes the L.A. Phil 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z I remember Christian Tetzlaff said a few years ago that, you know, who were the composers who wrote the groundbreaking new violin concertos? ‘The Great Czech Piano Cycle’ Arrives at Carnegie Hall 2023-01-29T05:00:00Z The saxophone concerto “Xiaoxiang,” a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2015, was inspired by the tale of a villager whose husband was killed by a Communist official during the Cultural Revolution. For Composer Lei Liang, Technology Brings a Different Transcendence 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z In any case, there was no such problem with the percussion dynamo Ms. Glennie in Mr. Ho’s brilliant and compelling concerto. Music Review: Spring for Music, a Festival of Orchestras, Plays Carnegie Hall 2014-05-09T22:21:55Z The symphonies, ballets and concertos sit alongside rambunctious concert works, many pieces for brass and wind band, and the film scores that are arguably his greatest achievement. The Hilarious, Heartbreaking Life and Music of Malcolm Arnold 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z Tired of the old routines, of programs announced far in advance that run through an overture, a concerto and a symphony, Gaffigan is also bothered by orchestras that refuse to reckon with their whiteness. A Conductor Comes Into His Own in the Opera Pit 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z Has your thinking about the concerto as a genre changed at all, in these intervening two decades? Unsuk Chin on the Violin Concerto She Swore She’d Never Write 2022-03-13T05:00:00Z And one of Schwarz's most impressive creations was on show too: the soloist in the concerto was his son Julian; in his teens, he's one of the finest cellists now before the public. Review: A last opening night for Gerard Schwarz at the Seattle Symphony 2010-09-12T20:31:00Z Detached from Robbins’s memorably feral movements, the concerto retained its savagely elegant power. Music Review: Pinchas Zukerman Leads Philharmonic in Bach and Mozart 2012-06-07T21:47:01Z The Piano Variations is more austere than the concerto, drained of its jazziness. Asking Whether Copland’s Abstruse Works are the Exception or the Rule 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z “In G Major” amazed him: How had he never encountered this marvelous piano concerto before? City Ballet’s ‘Robbins 100’: Making Music Theatrical 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z It’s not every day that a young superstar like Daniil Trifonov, the sensational Russian pianist, agrees to be just one of five soloists in a marathon concerto concert. Review: In ‘Folk, Form, and Fire,’ Hosting a Party of Five for Prokofiev 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z After listening to a Rachmaninoff concerto, Marilyn gets real comic conviction into her voice when she decides it must be classical music ‘because there’s no vocal’.” Marilyn Monroe 50 Years Later: In TIME and Out of Time 2012-08-03T12:00:58Z The pianist will be playing all five Beethoven piano concertos in four concerts at the Royal Albert Hall, with different orchestras and different conductors. Five difficult pieces 2010-04-22T22:00:00Z But this second violin concerto is again another turning point for me, because I was really enthusiastic about Leonidas’s playing, and it was something I’d never heard before. Unsuk Chin on the Violin Concerto She Swore She’d Never Write 2022-03-13T05:00:00Z The problem was most acute in the Berg concerto, in which Mr. Haitink’s tempos were strangely inert, the drama missing. Music Review: Bernard Haitink Leads the New York Philharmonic 2014-05-09T21:23:31Z A generous programme also included a slightly inconclusive new clarinet concerto by Catalan composer Benet Casablancas, written to accompany the Picasso exhibition at Tate Liverpool. Turnage at Fifty 2010-05-20T21:30:00Z In the Ravel concerto, he was rhythmically crisp in the opening movement, poised in the lyrical central Adagio and nimble in the concluding Presto. Pablo Heras-Casado leads the L.A. Philharmonic through a riveting performance of Ravel and Stravinsky 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z Then in early August, So Percussion, a quartet of brilliant percussionists, joined the orchestra for the premiere of a new arrangement of David Lang’s “man made,” a percussion concerto. Encouraging Signs of Freshness at the Mostly Mozart Festival 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z You can see that malleability at work even when Adams takes on such age-old formats as the symphony and concerto. Contemporary music icon John Adams is both composer and conductor in Seattle Symphony return engagement 2021-12-27T05:00:00Z Now the venerated arranger and composer has written a spanking new composition for D'Rivera himself, a three-part concerto for clarinet and jazz big band called "Northwest Passage." New Bill Holman composition debuts at Jazz Port Townsend 2011-07-20T22:19:04Z There aren't all that many exceptional concertos for his instrument, so another is treasure. Concertos take the lead at L.A. Phil, L.A. Chamber Orchestra 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z And the concerto’s string parts — which come across as extraneous in some readings — sounded fully integrated here, whether in moments of plucked frenzy in the second movement or in swooning melodic accompaniment, in the third. Review: Two Debuts Make for a Week of Philharmonic Firsts 2022-11-18T05:00:00Z The program explored the “concerto delle donne,” a female singing group in late-16th-century Italy that marked a crucial shift in the gender makeup of professional musicians. Reviews: Ian Bostridge, Tenet and Tallis Scholars in Performance 2015-04-19T04:00:00Z “Everything he writes is art,” said Mutter, for whom Williams wrote his second violin concerto, which premiered last year. John Williams, Hollywood’s Maestro, Looks Beyond the Movies 2022-02-08T05:00:00Z But Mr. Akiho, an imaginative composer and percussionist known for playing the steel pan and found instruments, said his concerto shouldn’t be taken too seriously. Watch Ping-Pong Make Its New York Philharmonic Debut 2018-02-19T05:00:00Z Bruch, known primarily for a single, conservative concerto, represents establishment Romanticism. Music Review: New York Philharmonic Plays Bruch and Bruckner 2013-01-10T22:16:29Z Before my first violin concerto I wrote my piano concerto, which for me is also a very important work. Unsuk Chin on the Violin Concerto She Swore She’d Never Write 2022-03-13T05:00:00Z She was supposedly Stalin's favorite pianist, and legend has it that a disc of her playing a Mozart piano concerto was on the dictator's record player when he was found dead. Russian pianist Alexei Lubimov fittingly honors the woman who insulted Stalin to his face 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z Mr. Gilbert, a Nielsen champion, has been performing and recording this composer’s complete symphonies and concertos with the Philharmonic. The Philharmonic’s Free Concert at St. John the Divine 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z The 21st century has been a strong one for violin concertos. Unsuk Chin on the Violin Concerto She Swore She’d Never Write 2022-03-13T05:00:00Z He started classical piano lessons at 3, composed a piano concerto when he was 8 and performed with the Washington Symphony Orchestra of Pennsylvania when he was 10. Bernie Worrell, Whose Keyboards Left an Imprint on Funk and Hip-Hop, Dies at 72 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z Grad wrote his concerto in four sections, each relating to a different season. The magic lute: Baroque instrument gets electric update for world premiere 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z “Playing this violin concerto with the Symphony is kind of tied into that.” Violinist James Ehnes and SSO to join forces on Bartók 2014-03-06T20:16:36Z When was the last time you saw a standing ovation for a Haydn concerto? Conductor Mario Venzago energizes Baltimore Symphony Orchestra 2015-05-17T04:00:00Z The concertos were inventoried at a pittance after the Margrave’s death in 1734 and gathered dust for more than a century. Music Review: Another Merry Christmas With the ?Brandenburgs? 2010-12-20T23:03:32Z Also on the bill are variations on Vivaldi’s “Winter” concerto. Turtle Island Quartet brings its eclectic tastes and passion for discovery to Seattle 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z Torelli was an Italian 17th Century violinist and composer who developed the concerto form "who is revealed from this discovery as being one of Vivaldi's teachers," he added. World premiere of Vivaldi's earliest known work 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z The concerto reflects on Mr. Rouse’s roots in the British Isles, drawing imaginatively on Celtic gestures. Leonard Slatkin Leads the Philharmonic in Copland and Rouse 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z The first two movements — “celestial object I” and “celestial object II” — are essentially brief concertos, the first for trumpet, the second for horn. Music Review: Molding Sound to Behave Like a Solar Eclipse 2010-10-22T23:27:00Z Suicide by creativity is something perhaps to aspire to in an age where more people know Katie Price better than the Emperor concerto. James Rhodes: 'Find what you love and let it kill you' 2013-04-26T16:08:01Z He experimented with completing some chamber pieces, then a violin concerto from 1788. Music’s Most Treacherous Assignment: Finishing Mozart 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z Relishing his role as concerto soloist, DJ Switch's takes on the classical show-off cadenza were breathtaking in their dexterity. Prom 30: NYO/Jurowski/DJ Switch/Grosvenor ? review 2011-08-07T11:13:08Z Thus in the manner of the traditional concerto in which soloist and orchestra represent the individual against the masses, Josefowicz becomes the modern woman facing off against a hostile society. Violinist Leila Josefowicz is a powerful storyteller in John Adams' 'Scheherazade.2' 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z These two works were balanced by two Brandenburg concertos, one either side of the interval. OAE/Butt – review 2013-03-26T18:19:20Z The latter evidently began life as a trombone concerto, but the solo writing seems so idiomatic and superbly integrated with the orchestral textures, no one would guess. Nordheim: Spur; Signals; Dinosauros; Flashing – review 2013-01-03T22:30:02Z Many of the slow movements of his piano concertos can seem like instrumental evocations of an opera aria. Curious About Classical Music? Here’s Where to Start 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z The musician said he had worked on Horner's new concerto for four horns with the London Philharmonic shortly before the composer died. French horn musicians converge in L.A., where Hollywood meets classical 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z Composer Ludwig van Beethoven: He lost his hearing, but his marvelous music is loved all over the world: overtures, sonatas, concertos — we treasure it all. Style Invitational Week 1374: ‘Versus’ verses 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z An unassuming young man walked from the horn section to the front of the stage, where he stood as if he were a concerto soloist. A Young Horn Player Could Become ‘a Real Legend’ 2022-06-06T04:00:00Z At Lincoln Center in May, this concerto did its job for the New York Philharmonic, drawing a healthy crowd to David Geffen Hall. Alan Gilbert Wanted to Save the New York Philharmonic. What Happened? 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z Broseta made a good impression not only as an able and subtle partner in the concerto but in the three orchestral pieces preceding it. A perfect storm: Yo-Yo Ma, Haydn and Bach with Seattle Symphony 2016-10-15T04:00:00Z It sounded like a lively, long-lost Brandenburg concerto -- and it was the best thing on the program. Bernard Labadie's welcome return to Disney Hall 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z On the road, they bring only wind and brass instrument players as compliments to their urbanized concerto. In Portland, cello players lay down a hip-hop beat 2012-06-01T22:01:36Z With that ensemble in recent years he has certainly had practice conducting concertos from the keyboard. The Week Ahead: Nov. 20 ? 26 2011-11-18T22:01:22Z It’s an amazing feeling getting to the end of the Brahms concerto. Joshua Bell on the death of Neville Marriner and picking up the baton from a legend 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z The remarkably mature Porter easily encompassed every aspect of this bipolar concerto. Simone Porter, Ludovic Morlot a star combo at Hollywood Bowl 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z The sheer volume of music he has produced — scores for more than 100, a symphony and a dozen concertos — would cow many composers. Musical Titan Honors His Heroes 2011-08-18T17:15:27Z Music poured out of the artist in that happy, prosperous time — concertos, chamber works, “The Marriage of Figaro.” Stalking the Memory of Mozart in Vienna 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z The set was so highly regarded among musicians that Bach made arrangements of at least six of the concertos. Music Review: 6 Vivaldis, One of Them Arranged by Bach 2010-08-31T20:48:00Z This time David Aaron Carpenter was the excellent soloist in the concerto. Critic’s Notebook: Spring for Music Festival at Carnegie Hall 2013-05-13T22:06:48Z Dotted with cadenzas that put the soloist back in the forefront, the concerto demonstrated Kernis’ command of the complete orchestral palette, from cataclysmic brass passages to otherworldly solo harmonics over hushed strings. Review: New concerto was written for powerhouse violinist — and he delivered 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z Many composers draw on the David and Goliath potential of the concerto genre to generate conflict between soloist and orchestra. Boston Symphony Shows Verve Even Without Levine 2011-03-16T06:11:47Z Starting Friday, she will lead the New York Philharmonic in a series of concerts featuring the violinist Lisa Batiashvili in the Tchaikovsky concerto. A Conductor on a Mission to Help Ukraine 2023-01-18T05:00:00Z It began with Mozart's last piano concerto, written the year of the composer's death. Herbert Blomstedt leads L.A. Phil's commanding Bruckner performance 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z His new piano concerto similarly finds common ground between the concert hall and cabaret. Review: Concert Hall, Meet Cabaret 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z On Tuesday, though, from the moment Mr. Gilbert took microphone in hand to welcome the audience and discuss Ms. Chin’s concerto, he was in his element. New York Philharmonic Presents an Unsuk Chin Premiere 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z The difference now isn’t just that the Tehran orchestra playing a pathetic Peace and Friendship Symphony is such a far cry from Emil Gilels playing Beethoven’s Emperor concerto. 2010-02-03T21:58:00Z Two weeks later, at a violin concerto premiere with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Mr. Cerrone met her parents. The Classical Concert That Changed Their Lives 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z Also on the program are concertos by Johann Sebastian Bach, his son C. P. E. Bach and Stravinsky, as well as the premiere of a Chaconne credited to the entire orchestra. Classical: Britten Serenade in the Park 2013-07-26T20:08:34Z But there are moments in the first movement that also echo the famous piano concerto by Grieg. Seattle Chamber Music Society Summer Festival presents concert of darkness, light 2011-07-28T19:25:04Z But the concerto is known today from an 1894 version, published after Tchaikovsky’s death, which includes tweaks and cuts the composer had never sanctioned, as Mr. Gerstein explains in his information liner notes. Classical Playlist: Tchaikovsky, Leonard Bernstein and More 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z Mr. Trifonov, who had a Perspectives series at Carnegie Hall, has always been able to toss off Liszt and Chopin études or any blockbuster concerto. Trifonov and Andsnes: Different Generations, Same Curiosity 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z While the concerto is long-established in classical music, the saxophone - 175 years after it was invented - remains a bit player in the orchestra. Classical Saxophone in Proms spotlight 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z It is the shortest and least popular of Dvorák's four late tone poems, all of which are greatly overshadowed by the Czech composer's concertos and last symphonies. London Philharmonic Orchestra's Jurowski a hypnotic force 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z The driving conclusion to the concerto had the audience standing and roaring. Review: Slatkin, Thibaudet take Seattle Symphony audiences on a jazzy jaunt 2011-04-22T17:02:03Z “That was a first in my life, but I still managed to finish the concerto,” the violinist recalls. Her Seattle Symphony debut drew blood. Now, this fierce violinist brings her fearless artistry back to town. 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z When Mozart played his own concertos, he typically conducted as well. The Week Ahead: Nov. 20 ? 26 2011-11-18T22:01:22Z But he did premiere telling music, especially a sensational violin concerto by Earl Kim, a Californian who studied with Schoenberg. Itzhak Perlman revisits moments of early greatness with pianist Emanuel Ax 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z Yet elements of spiky modernism often run through his scores, as in this concerto. 5 Classical Music Albums to Hear Right Now 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z Instead Hewitt played Bach's keyboard concerto in F minor, a work whose vivacious outer movements are thrown into relief by the serene central largo. Britten Sinfonia/Hewitt ? review 2011-04-05T17:45:01Z The lonely theme of the Passacaglia movement in the Shostakovich concerto also evokes what Willa Cather heard in the tender melody that Dvorak concocted for his Largo: “the immeasurable yearning of all flat lands.” Music Review: Frank Peter Zimmermann and Philharmonic Play Shostakovich 2012-11-25T23:04:20Z In Geffen Hall, a critic or patron couldn’t ask Glass about changes he made in his concerto, because he was tucked away in a box — as was Borda. The 'L.A. Phil Effect' hits New York, Cleveland and beyond 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z “He sat down at the piano and tore into the opening bars of a Liszt concerto in such a way that we simply flipped,” Mr. Bernstein later said, recounting the young pianist’s audition. André Watts, Pioneering Piano Virtuoso, Dies at 77 2023-07-14T04:00:00Z Shostakovich's concerto, which followed, is for piano, trumpet and strings. Salonen leads Yuja Wang, L.A. Phil through Russian turmoil 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z There is a piano concerto — the portentous No. 20 in D minor — with the elegant pianist Nelson Freire as the soloist. The Week Ahead: July 29 — Aug. 4 2012-07-30T13:57:52Z It is set to five movements from two Bach concertos. Dance Review: Paul Taylor Dance Company at the Koch Theater 2012-03-30T20:37:16Z But they can also come in the form of a sonnet or a heavy-metal band, a Saturday cartoon series or a concerto. Nostalgia? Yestalgia! Why reviving old shows is exactly what we need right now 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z He has toured and recorded the five piano concertos and Choral Fantasy, conducting the Mahler Chamber Orchestra from the keyboard. Dudamel, L.A. Phil scale down amid Andsnes' elegant Beethoven 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z Later in the concerto there is a repetitive elaboration of a downward scale more in the manner of Philip Glass. Vijay Iyer jazzes up the Ojai Music Festival 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z For the Bach concerto, a loudspeaker was placed in front of the stage. Hip harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani goes for Baroque but is unfortunately hard to hear 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z Mr. Pollini begins to look frail at 72, and an errant phrase or two at the start of the concerto raised fears for his performance. Lucerne Festival in Switzerland Aims for Accessibility 2014-08-24T04:00:00Z While searching for models, one attracted me above all: the miraculous sequence of Mozart concertos, which lifted the then-novel form to a degree of unmatched perfection. Composing for the piano in black and white 2010-06-03T22:05:00Z Some artists have shrugged off the concerto, which Schumann completed when she was 15, as the work of a teenager. Clara Schumann and Florence Price Get Their Due at Carnegie Hall 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z A duo concerto — the New York Philharmonic plays the one Brahms composed for violin and cello next week — poses a challenge: triangulating the traditional soloist-orchestra dynamic. Review: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra Dives Into Romanticism 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z Orchestras rarely break the habit of commissioning curtain-raisers — something brief and often forgettable to open a program before the fun of a familiar concerto or symphony. Best Classical Music Performances of 2022 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z The tremendous subtlety, accuracy, and lyricism of Ma’s playing made listeners re-imagine the whole idea of a concerto. A perfect storm: Yo-Yo Ma, Haydn and Bach with Seattle Symphony 2016-10-15T04:00:00Z Fischer specializes in the canonical 19th-century and classical, Central European repertoire; the Strathmore concert includes Mozart’s fifth violin concerto and the incidental music to Mendelssohn’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” Ivan Fischer, conductor and radical, brings his Budapest Festival Orchestra to D.C. 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z After the concerto, he spoke to the audience about the responsibility we all have to love one another and be creative during what has been “a time of death and despair.” Review: The New Jersey Symphony Orchestra Returns, With Gusto 2021-10-10T04:00:00Z Both performances were remarkable, the concerto, with Martin Owen as soloist, above all. Hall?/Knussen - review 2011-02-06T17:50:05Z Improvisation has largely been left to the very occasional special guest, like the pianist Aaron Diehl — who, after studying both classical and jazz traditions, sometimes improvises during a Gershwin concerto. Orchestras Looking to Broaden Horizons? Start Improvising 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z She prefaced Holst’s cosmic suite with more contemporary fare: the orchestral versions of Pierre Boulez’s “Notations,” translucently celebrating the composer’s 90th birthday year, and a new violin concerto by Luca Francesconi. Review: Two BBC Proms More Modern than Pastoral 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z He conducted chamber orchestras, and Mozart concertos from the keyboard, and in his late teens began working as a repetiteur — the opera rehearsal assistant position that was the main root of old-school conducting careers. A Not-Quite-Star Maestro Has a Starry Season at the Met 2022-11-29T05:00:00Z Assistant principal oboist Jamie Roberts covered herself in glory on the lead oboe parts in the suite and cantatas, allowing Stovall to focus on the concerto. Helmuth Rilling returns to NSO with sweet gifts of Bach Of course, that hasn’t stopped Carnegie from bringing Beethoven back to celebrate the 250th anniversary of his birth, with about a fifth of its season devoted to the sonatas, quartets and concertos. This Is How to Do a Beethoven Symphony Cycle 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z The sound palette created by these multiple layers was astonishingly rich, and at times the virtuosic violin line above the repetitive radio signal patterns took on the tried-and-tested beauty of a Vivaldi concerto. Critic’s Notebook: Monica Germino Melds Violin and Electronics 2013-06-16T21:51:17Z I don't know when I last enjoyed a performance of this concerto so much. The Turn of the Screw; BBC Proms 32, 35, 36 ? review 2011-08-13T23:06:02Z Still, having been trained by arguably the best Russian teachers in the world, Cliburn’s heart was Russian, with the Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff concertos. Van Cliburn, American Classical Pianist, Dies 2013-02-27T20:06:33Z During a long later section, the piece becomes like a little concerto for orchestra, featuring star turns for instruments in solo, duo, trio and small ensemble groups. Review: An Ambitious Project Returns at the Philharmonic 2021-12-05T05:00:00Z Velinzon, the orchestra’s current concertmaster, has been heard in several shorter solos with the Symphony, but this concerto appearance on a subscription program was his most prominent outing thus far. Solos step up in Symphony’s take on two masterpieces 2014-04-26T00:46:53Z Couldn’t the ensemble have simply dedicated the whole concert — or at least Adès’s concerto, a musical depiction of the wonders and terrors of nature — to those affected? Review: A Concerto Conjures the Creation, With Video 2023-02-17T05:00:00Z In tribute, Mr. Zimerman recorded those concertos on his own, conducting the Vienna Philharmonic from the keyboard. In Praise of Bernstein as Conductor: Movement That Mesmerized 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z The concerto is amiable but unmemorable, an apt description for much of the concert. Music Review: The New York Philharmonic With Riccardo Muti and Carter Brey 2010-04-15T22:16:00Z The Labèques launched stormy runs, but the concerto often overwhelms itself, burying its details in a muddy muddle. With the NSO, French piano duo Katia and Marielle Labèque brew up a storm (and some stress) 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z The music is quite different from all my other concertos. Unsuk Chin on the Violin Concerto She Swore She’d Never Write 2022-03-13T05:00:00Z The boy wonder was first adored for his beguiling way with violin bonbons and the unbelievable maturity and direct expression he brought to the great violin concertos. 'The Menuhin Century' is now: Why the violin master is still the sound of hope and peace 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z Britten completed this concerto in 1939, while living in the United States. Review: At the Philharmonic, a Screaming Reflection on War 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z As he prepared to walk onstage to play the Rachmaninoff concerto, he said he thought of Carl Sagan’s idea of Earth as just a “pale blue dot” in the universe. A 19-Year-Old Pianist Electrifies Audiences. But He’s Unimpressed. 2023-05-09T04:00:00Z During that run of concerts, she will perform the American premiere of a double concerto for violin and oboe written for her and her husband by the French composer Thierry Escaich. Lisa Batiashvili on Violins, Ukraine and Valery Gergiev 2015-01-31T05:00:00Z There was a persistent cellphone ring midway through the concerto. Music Review: New York Philharmonic Plays Tchaikovsky at Avery Fisher Hall 2012-07-08T20:24:36Z He finds the last drop of beauty in Mozart’s concerto. Why 1791 in 2017? Gustavo Dudamel searches for meaning in Mozart's last year 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z Akiho has written substantial works for steel pan, for percussion, for marimba and string quartet, for snare drum and sampled dog barking, and many other configurations — even a concerto for onstage Ping-Pong players and orchestra. One Composer, Four Players, ‘Seven Pillars’ 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z The Bruch concerto is mostly made for display, with its alternation of big tunes in the Adagio and its virtuosic pyrotechnics in the finale. Music Review: A Fresh Face Confronts a Seasoned Mahler 2011-03-18T22:24:01Z Seven other composers are currently at work on new piano concertos for Hodges. A Pianist Adapts to Life With Parkinson’s Disease 2023-08-07T04:00:00Z Lutoslawski specified pitch in his cello concerto but exerted less control over rhythm and coordination. Music Review: A Composer Who Rolled the Dice 2011-01-30T22:07:57Z The program was flanked by the Second and Third concertos, touchstones of the repertory for the past century, and also included the youthful First; the changeable, big-band-inflected Fourth; and the playfully kaleidoscopic “Rhapsody.” Review: Yuja Wang Sweeps Through a Rachmaninoff Marathon 2023-01-29T05:00:00Z One student after another aced an unaccompanied work or an extended solo passage from a concerto. The National Youth Orchestra’s Moment in the Sun 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z An elegy for a pianist who died young, the work is a concerto writ small; in fact, Mr. Kaila wrote an orchestral version concurrently. Music Review: MATA Festival Returns, With Spotlight on Helsinki 2014-04-17T23:21:53Z MacMillan's concerto offers a fiery addition to the solo oboe's confined repertoire. The Merry Widow; Britten Sinfonia 2010-10-23T23:06:00Z When Lisiecki made his official subscription debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra in 2014, he performed three Mozart concertos in one week. Polish Canadian piano prodigy is poised to rack up frequent-flier miles 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z Weinberg adds a harpsichord to the latter to create the equivalent of a five-movement baroque concerto grosso. Weinberg: Symphonies Nos 1 & 7 2010-06-03T22:16:00Z But Schumann’s violin concerto is not, in fact, a well-known work. Midori fails to sell little-known Schumann to NSO audience She plays the popular Bruch concerto, but only on Wednesday; the complete Stravinsky ballet fills in on Thursday. Opera & Classical Music Listings for Sept. 26-Oct. 2 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z Concertmasters often take solo turns, too, playing concertos with their own orchestras. Jorja Fleezanis, Violinist and Pioneering Concertmaster, Dies at 70 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z Andreas said that the players were more interested in “quality of sound than its effect,” referring to the classical structure and rich interplay between voices in the Eröd concerto as an example. When One Instrument Speaks in Three Voices 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z There was a risk of dwelling on the It-ness of it all — something fortunately mitigated by the pace of the finale, shot through with similarities to the Brahms concerto. Conductor Juraj Valcuha takes NSO program to a near-slog 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z While shaped along classical lines, the traditional concerto balance is altered by the absence of any conflict between soloist and orchestra: attention is held instead by the soloist's intricate engagement with a succession of instruments. BBCNOW/Outwater | Classical review 2010-03-19T22:05:00Z For a piece billed as towering, the Busoni concerto is actually pretty chatty. Pianist Ohlsson brings elegance to a whiz-bang performance of massive Busoni And, in addition to that, he's creating a show featuring his rock concerto paired with a set of songs he's calling R.E.M. Mike Mills on R.E.M's "New Adventures in Hi-Fi" at 25: A record "infused by being on the road" 2021-11-20T05:00:00Z “And that’s the tradition that’s been instilled in me by Rostropovich. He would be proud that three members of the cello section, whom he chose to join the orchestra, are playing this concerto.” Lives of the cellists 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z In 2016, Marshall mentioned that he would like to write something for me — a concerto, perhaps. Ingram Marshall Built and Obscured Monoliths of Sound 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z And Mr. Wheeldon is similarly resourceful in his responses to Bernstein’s “Serenade after Plato: Symposium,” a violin concerto in five movements that slips between poetic lyricism and driving dynamic rhythm. Review: An American in London (Bernstein, That Is) 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z Mr. Langrée and the orchestra rendered all of this in fine fashion, appropriately roughing up the drama of the concerto a bit. Review: Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra Shines in Simplicity 2016-07-31T04:00:00Z Many of his compositions, including a two-piano version of the Grammy-nominated concerto, were left in a trunk in the basement of a hotel in Milan that was bombed during World War II. Forgotten work gets Grammy nomination 2011-02-11T18:54:07Z After 250 years or so, the piano concerto has some life in it yet. Adès and Adams: Big Composers With Simultaneous Big Premieres 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z Recently returned from several recitals in Paris, Goode’s busy season includes concertos with major orchestras and a bit of chamber music. Pianist Richard Goode to play ‘kaleidoscopic’ program in Seattle 2014-03-12T19:33:18Z The concerto was informed by the American jazz tradition, says Adams. Classical Saxophone in Proms spotlight 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z Common to both evenings was a well-known Haydn concerto with a superb soloist. Music Review: Serious ?Rite,? Sultry Tango and Skillful Solos 2011-01-28T23:11:00Z Structured in five continuous movements, the concerto begins with a hushed, almost lugubrious yet intense choralelike theme in the low register of the piano. Critic’s Notebook: Under Leif Ove Andsnes, Ojai Festival Enjoys Long Scandinavian Nights 2012-06-12T21:53:19Z But they are of their time; you might as well argue that Bach’s concertos are quaint once you’re heard Beethoven’s. Music Review: ‘Source of Uncertainty,’ Featuring Morton Subotnick, at Schimmel Center 2012-07-08T21:29:42Z Given the instrument’s soft-spoken nature, even when amplified, the solo line is not the fiery sort you would expect in a violin or piano concerto. Music Review: Chris Thile and Mandolin Join Orpheus Ensemble at Carnegie 2012-03-26T22:38:28Z Ms. Higdon treats them as such in this 25-minute concerto, inspired by the folk music and bluegrass of the Smoky Mountains in Tennessee, where she grew up. Music Review: Baltimore and Albany Symphonies at Carnegie Hall 2013-05-08T21:11:30Z For its main project, he is recording and performing the five Beethoven piano concertos with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, directing the ensemble from the keyboard. Music Review: Leif Ove Andsnes at Carnegie Hall, Part of a 19-City Tour 2014-03-20T23:37:04Z If Mahler’s genre was the symphony, the concerto is Unsuk Chin’s. Classical Music/Opera Listings 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z In its own way, the Brahms concerto folds together different eras. Violinist Jennifer Koh bridges past and present 2012-03-15T20:58:04Z He was this larger-than-life figure, and I think it’s a larger-than-life piano concerto. ‘It Has It All’: Taking on a Strange, Immense Piano Concerto 2023-06-20T04:00:00Z Apart from the orchestral introductions the ensemble is merely a dutiful accompanist throughout, although Mr. Gilbert notes in a blog for Musical America that “playing the orchestral accompaniment in Chopin’s concertos is far from straightforward.” Music Review: A Chopin Competition Winner Collects Her Reward 2011-01-05T23:15:23Z As Oram’s score, which is used before and between the concerto movements, growls more ominously, a dancer in a voluminous coat and high heels steps on to the stage, shouting. Review: A Dance Gushes With an Outpouring of the Inner Self 2023-03-19T04:00:00Z Also curious for a percussion concerto was the absence of strong rhythmic character. Review | Percussion concerto offers less bang than whimper 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z In the concerto, several orchestral solos, especially the early ones from the horns, sounded crude and blatant. Review: Trifonov Caps Rachmaninoff Fest With Pianistic Verve 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z It’ll be interesting to chart its future progress after the four premieres: one must wonder who else is able to play the concerto. Review: New concerto was written for powerhouse violinist — and he delivered 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z What a brilliant programming coup, starting up the orchestra in the post-holiday doldrums with an ultra-popular piano extravaganza featuring four Rachmaninov concertos in two programs. A knockout Night One of Rachmaninov fest 2013-01-04T16:38:19Z It’s a culmination of the tradition of the piano concerto — from Mozart through Beethoven, Brahms, Liszt and Tchaikovsky — and its rare appearances are thrilling events for its partisans. Best Classical Music Performances of 2022 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z The aim was to produce a Deutsche Grammophon disc of a vocal work and two Mozart concertos, No. 19 in F and No. 23 in A. Mozart wrote cadenzas for both. H?l?ne Grimaud and Claudio Abbado Part Ways 2011-10-30T22:37:26Z I felt as comfortable on stage as when I play a Beethoven concerto ... German violinist Fischer on spurning a photo shoot 2013-09-20T11:39:14Z Wit, charm, brilliance, rapture, personal crisis and a few strokes of fate are all wrapped up together in an extraordinary parcel, wonderfully right for Stravinsky’s “Dumbarton Oaks” concerto. Critic?s Notebook: A Galaxy of Ballet Stars Spinning in a Flickering Universe 2011-06-05T22:25:36Z Following this with Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 20 in D Minor might seem too much contrast, but this concerto also feels dark. An explosive 'Doctor Atomic' at SSO 2012-01-06T19:09:04Z The jury will gather for deliberations in the evening after hearing the last four among the 12 finalists play a Chopin concerto with the orchestra during the day. Chopin international piano competition closes in on winner 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z The new concerto is a work of considerable beauty, with delicate, feathery glissandi in the two harps, a bewitching double cadenza, and intricate rhythmic patterns. Review: Seattle Symphony shines in major works by women composers, despite last-minute conductor change 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z Each of these two releases offers one symphony and one concerto, and one includes “Métaboles,” probably his most performed work. CD reviews: Tetzlaff takes on Czech masters; Seattle’s Dutilleux 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z Their arrivals were announced loudly, even a bit indelicately: The concerto had clarity and crowd-pleasing excitement, but also lapses in sensitivity and shape. Review: Two Artists Arrive at the Philharmonic, Loudly 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z The program consisted of Tchaikovsky’s violin concerto and the Beethoven symphony, which is about as standard and popular as the repertory gets. Review | How the NSO and Noseda brought fresh air to the summer heat at Wolf Trap 2019-07-28T04:00:00Z The concert is to include excerpts from “The Nutcracker” and “The Firebird,” as well as Shostakovich’s first cello concerto, played by Yo Yo Ma, the guest of honor. What's on This Week Around the World 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z I get a sneak preview of part of the finale, the most extrovert music in the whole concerto, with Cox on tom-toms and Gunnell on marimba. O Duo: 'It's not just music. It's visual, too' 2010-09-30T22:25:00Z The concerto’s puckish soloist is to play almost ceaselessly throughout, constantly switching between distinct temperaments. Andrew Norman on Loving ‘Star Wars’ and Pushing Musical Boundaries 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z And the performance of the concerto was magnificent. Music Review: London Symphony Orchestra, With Colin Davis - Review 2011-10-20T21:57:49Z Together with Frank Bridge's masterpiece Oration, EJ Moeran's work is one of the two great British cello concertos that followed the example set by Elgar in the wake of the first world war. Moeran: Cello Concerto; Serenade, etc – review 2013-04-25T12:58:27Z Haydn's C major concerto is the repertoire stalwart, with its bouncy finale that anyone who's taken trumpet lessons will have drilled into sobriety. BBCSSO/Hardenberger ? review 2011-03-25T22:00:02Z Done right, it sounds like the concerto taking its first breath. Perspective | With ‘Roots,’ violinist Randall Goosby makes a first impression with lasting impact 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z A violin concerto that he was supposed to write for Leonidas Kavakos in 2011 was not finished in time for planned performances in Los Angeles, Berlin, Philadelphia and London, and remains uncompleted. Osvaldo Golijov’s New Opera for the Met is Called Off 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z With Carlos Miguel Prieto conducting the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, three impressive young musicians played concertos by Copland, Barber and Rachmaninoff. Music Review: Three Rising Stars Perform in Young Concert Artists Gala 2014-05-08T22:04:37Z I mean it as a compliment that, listening to Mr. Goode, you forgot that this work, like all the Mozart concertos, was intended partly as a show-off piece for the soloist. Music Review: David Zinman Leads Philharmonic in Mendelssohn and Mozart 2013-12-06T22:21:02Z Of all five concertos, this was the work that most directly referred to the festival as it beamed the formal symmetry and textural clarity of Mozart into the 21st century. Review: New Music Inspired by Christ’s Agony and Dating Apps 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z The centerpiece of the Bach festival will be performances of the six Taylor dances, which were created between 1961 and 2002 and set to Bach’s “Brandenburg” concertos, cello suites and other works. With Bach and Paul Taylor, Orchestra of St. Luke’s Plans Its Future 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z Jazzy dalliances and an abrupt ending didn’t ultimately detract from the concerto’s absorbing sound world. The Boston Symphony Finds Surprises and Strengths in New Music 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z "I think the concerto is going to be a big hit," says Roman from his home in New York. Symphony season breaks boundaries 2011-09-15T01:09:42Z “I said I would like to do another piano concerto one day, and it became a project.” A Lifelong Friendship’s Latest Chapter: A Concerto Premiere 2022-10-12T04:00:00Z Kent Nagano leads his Canadian forces in a program that’s notable mainly for a rare appearance by Maxim Vengerov, the commanding violinist, for the Brahms concerto. Classical Music in NYC This Week 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z In any case, it and the concerto were enthusiastically received. Loosening its tie, NSO debuts a steelpan work and its composer 2015-05-31T04:00:00Z The new concerto picks up on an idea developed in “Play”: Specific percussion instruments trigger abrupt shifts between different musical materials. Andrew Norman on Loving ‘Star Wars’ and Pushing Musical Boundaries 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z He didn’t want his first concerto recording with Decca to be of French music — “It’s not your passport that makes your repertoire,” he said — so, he programmed Liszt. For This Classical Piano Star, a Detour Is Business as Usual 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z And the jazz pianist Chick Corea will be the orchestra’s artist in residence, performing Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 24, with his own cadenzas, and writing a trombone concerto. The Philharmonic’s New Season: What We Want to Hear 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z The violinist stood on the rear stage like a soloist in a concerto while singers watched in awe, as if a statue of a saint can come to miraculous life. L.A. Phil gets theatrical with Beethoven's Missa Solemnis 2015-01-11T05:00:00Z At his death, he was working on a percussion concerto. Accessing a Place Of Shaggy Wildness 2011-05-14T04:00:07Z Its three-movement structure is one of the work's few concessions to traditional concerto form; least expected is the way each movement fades to nothing. BBCNOW/Søndergård – review 2013-07-01T17:10:56Z Written when Brahms was in his early 20s, the concerto was a radical effort to merge newness with tradition. Bach and Brahms, still revolutionary 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z Stravinsky quickly slips into his Neo-Classical style, actually more neo-Baroque here, to create a concerto grosso in which orchestral soloists regularly wrest the spotlight from the piano line. Music Review: New York Philharmonic in the Modern Beethoven Festival 2012-03-02T22:43:08Z Mr. Rautavaara produced eight symphonies, seven operas, 14 concertos and dozens of other orchestral and vocal compositions. Einojuhani Rautavaara, acclaimed Finnish composer, dies at 87 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z Strauss was 25 when he wrote “Don Juan,” as was Hummel when he wrote his concerto. Cutting the Hollywood Bowl down to size 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z Yet here is an idiosyncratic concerto teeming with invention. Review: George Benjamin, at Mostly Mozart, Shows Depth as a Conductor 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z She’s played the Hungarian composer’s individual concertos this season, including at the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing and with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Piano virtuoso Yuja Wang could have gone anywhere for this interview. She chose ... Universal Studios? 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z Perhaps Mr. Adès is actually dismantling the concerto from within? Two Coasts, Two Concertos: Adès and Adams Offer Piano Premieres 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z Ms. Lack was still a teenager when she began embarking on worldwide tours, drawing praise for her intensity and warmth of tone in concertos and sonatas by Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Haydn and others. Fredell Lack, Admired Violinist and Teacher, Dies at 95 2017-08-28T04:00:00Z The concert began with a vanishingly rare sight at the Philharmonic: two women appearing together as concerto soloist and conductor. Review: A Conductor’s Exciting Return to the New York Philharmonic 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z There are no gaps between the concerto’s sections, so no breaks for awkward throat clearing. The Sheku Effect: A Classical Music Star Rises 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z But she has always competed with the best fiddlers of her time in her recordings of mainstream repertoire; her Bach, Beethoven, Brahms and Bartok concertos are fully competitive with anyone else’s. CD reviews: Mullova shines in Prokofiev 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z These dances, like Chen’s concerto, are Proustian music, evocations of the Russian past presented in a modern, occasionally even jazzy, light. Review: A Chinese Concerto and a Romantic Classic Gaze Back 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z Ms. Lash, 34 and a professor at the Yale School of Music, creates richly textured scores that include a chamber concerto for harp. Review: Hannah Lash and Her ‘Life Partner’ at Miller Theater 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z Mr. Liebermann’s concerto has four movements; onstage, each of the first three features a different woman. Dance Review: Miami City Ballet in Liam Scarlett Work at Kravis Center 2013-01-28T23:05:18Z The concerto was given flattering company alongside Stravinsky's Pulcinella Suite and Mendelssohn's Italian Symphony, both works that accentuated its rustic energy and elegant lines. SCO/Fischer – review 2013-02-03T18:43:21Z By then, the die was cast: Kapustin’s pieces from then on featured the strong influence of jazz — whether he was writing sonatas, études or concertos. A Composer Shows the Way to Give Classical Music Swing 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z The concerto’s turgid post-Straussian orchestration often buries the soloist, but Alsop is a strong accompanist and did a good job here. BSO at Strathmore: A well-balanced ensemble that hits right at the surface When we commissioned Thomas Adès for the same RFH reopening, he answered with In Seven Days, a concerto for piano, the London Sinfonietta and six video screens. The Rite of Spring: still crazy after all these years 2011-02-03T22:30:01Z The same holds for the new concerto set. Recordings: Mixing Urgency and Relaxation 2010-09-25T21:04:00Z The concerto, completed in 1910 for the violinist Fritz Kreisler, is a dense, teeming work, by turns fascinating, elusive and, for me, confounding. Music Review: Rendering Elgar?s Mercurial Impressions 2010-12-10T22:00:00Z The piece is a kind of concerto, featuring video clips of Mr. Gronvold in action and reactive music from the ensemble, combining in a visceral, frenzied whole. Review: On a MATA Festival Program, Burps, Belches, Paranoia 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z And Rana can say the same about Schumann, having toured the concerto with Nézet-Séguin, and having prepared a recording to be released in February. Clara Schumann and Florence Price Get Their Due at Carnegie Hall 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z Two very different piano concertos, both performed by soloist Orli Shaham, came as a continuation of mood but opposites in execution. An explosive 'Doctor Atomic' at SSO 2012-01-06T19:09:04Z After being away from home for a month because of his new opera, and now being here in Los Angeles for the premiere of his concerto, Bjarnason said he needs a rest. A 'beast' of new Icelandic music will premiere tonight at the Hollywood Bowl 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z But his playing is unfailingly charismatic, and the rustic exuberance of the final movement of the Mozart concerto sizzled. Review: Orpheus’s Shifting Glimmers From Angled Glass 2016-03-20T04:00:00Z Mr. Bronfman brought commanding pianism and acute insight to his vigorous, lucid account of the Brahms concerto. Review: The Met Orchestra’s Season Concludes Under James Levine’s Soaring Baton 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z The violin concerto is one of the best-known and most beloved in the repertory, and it dances with a smile, particularly in the final movement, when the soloist, Ray Chen, beamed along with the music. Review | At NSO, familiarity breeds contentment 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z The concerto, with an energetic performance by Pekka Kuusisto, the Finnish violinist, was greeted by repeated standing ovations and glowing reviews. If Remote Work Empties Downtowns, Can Theaters Fill Their Seats? 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z The Gran Mogol concerto was one of a set of four, all previously thought lost, so the other three must be lurking in libraries and private collections somewhere. Loft and found: have you got a Vivaldi lurking in your attic? 2010-11-22T12:36:00Z At Carnegie, they will be united to play Brahms’s “Tragic Overture,” the Tchaikovsky concerto with Khristenko and Dvorak’s “New World” Symphony, as part of a tour led by the Ukrainian American conductor Theodore Kuchar. Carnegie Hall’s New Season: What We Want to Hear 2022-04-26T04:00:00Z The soloist was the lyrical, incisive Alisa Weilerstein, who released a flawless recording of the concerto with the Czechs several years ago. Review: The Czech Philharmonic Brings Tear-Streaked Consolation 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z Mozart's four horn concertos may be his best set of concertos of all, but you rarely hear them in concert, possibly because these pieces are not exactly walks in the park for the soloist. Andrew Manze leads L.A. Philharmonic in a horn showcase 2015-02-08T05:00:00Z Here, all four movements seem to conform too comfortably to the template of what a successful contemporary violin concerto needs to be. Salonen: Violin Concerto; Nyx – review 2012-10-04T20:49:00Z It can also be profoundly serene, as in “Suspend,” a 2014 concerto for the pianist Emanuel Ax and the Los Angeles Philharmonic that dreamily meditates on Brahms. Andrew Norman on Loving ‘Star Wars’ and Pushing Musical Boundaries 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z Barber’s concertos for cello and piano return dividends as great as the Violin Concerto, and Schuman’s Sixth and Eighth Symphonies and his “Showcase” can still move, challenge and excite audiences. Two Composers, Honored Silently 2011-07-30T04:00:25Z That piano concerto, which premiered with the Boston Symphony Orchestra last year, was recorded by Deutsche Grammophon and released in February. A Pianist Has Cracked a Composer’s Code 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z So far, Trifonov's works include a piano concerto, which was commissioned by the Cleveland Institute, and a double concerto for violin, piano and chamber orchestra. Daniil Trifonov, 24, is ready to make magic at Walt Disney Concert Hall 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z Written during a period in which Mr. Adams also made a new opera, “Girls of the Golden West,” about the dark side of the California Gold Rush, the concerto comes across as a companion work. Two Coasts, Two Concertos: Adès and Adams Offer Piano Premieres 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z As with many Elgar works, like the “Enigma” Variations for orchestra, this concerto is embedded with musical portraits. Music Review: Rendering Elgar?s Mercurial Impressions 2010-12-10T22:00:00Z This is the most lyrical, accessible and playable of the three concertos. Music Review: Budapest Festival Orchestra at Carnegie Hall - Review 2011-10-30T22:45:27Z Boulanger’s piece could hardly register alongside a towering piano concerto and a yet more towering symphony, Prokofiev’s Fifth. Review: Two Artists Arrive at the Philharmonic, Loudly 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z Kuropaczewski had an endearing way of tuning and warming up before starting playing, which lent a certain intimacy to his performance both of the concerto and the engrossing encore, Albéniz’s “Leyenda.” Review | A gleeful resumption of routine: Standard program makes for diverting evening 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z He proved exemplary throughout, beginning with his pearly touch in the opening melody of the D-minor concerto and his cleanly executed, sparkling runs in both pieces. Review: Parlor-Style Mozart From the Ariel Quartet 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z He didn’t perform an encore, which only heightened the contrast between the rosy concerto, a triumph of early 1791, and what followed after intermission: the Requiem, left unfinished at Mozart’s death. Review: Mozart’s Requiem Gets a Fresh Spin at the Philharmonic 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z Since your first violin concerto, you have written several concertos for other instruments. Unsuk Chin on the Violin Concerto She Swore She’d Never Write 2022-03-13T05:00:00Z On Friday, you can hear it with Lera Auerbach’s new violin concerto, “NYx: Fractured Dreams”; on Saturday, it comes with Bartok’s Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta. Classical Music in NYC This Week 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z As in most concertos, Mr. van der Aa’s solo writing demands extreme virtuosity, which, of course, the charismatic Ms. Jansen dispatches with athletic ease. Review: Met Opera’s Next Maestro Energizes His Philadelphians 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z Each pianist brought a distinctive personality to the concerto, and this collaboration with Denk — Adams calls him “one of the most thoughtful pianists” — is likely to reveal still more facets. Contemporary music icon John Adams is both composer and conductor in Seattle Symphony return engagement 2021-12-27T05:00:00Z “The first year after winning a prize, you’re usually offered a lot of opportunities to play concertos,” he says. Rach Fest: two nights, four concertos, four pianists 2012-12-28T21:53:25Z The classically trained pianist, who loves Maroon 5 and Adele, recently finished his first symphony and a piano concerto, "Manhattan Intermezzo," that he'll debut at London's Royal Albert Hall on Oct. Neil Sedaka turns his calendar girl into dino pet 2012-05-15T21:41:12Z A new album of concertos for cello and string orchestra, energetically performed by soloist Nicolas Altstaedt and the British ensemble Arcangelo, flaunts the composer’s sparkling melodies, zigzagging rhythms and shifting moods. CD reviews: Early music on the cutting edge 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z The start of the finale of the Concerto No. 17 was modest, propulsive, fluent: qualities that also characterized the Philharmonic’s performance, between the two concertos, of the overture to Mozart’s “The Magic Flute.” Lang Lang Shares the Spotlight With the Philharmonic 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z Throughout the concerto, Kernis supplies musical cues for the familiar, ingratiating "Tumbalalaika" tune, with the viola leading what sounds like an archaeological dig through distant harmonies and melodies. Concertos take the lead at L.A. Phil, L.A. Chamber Orchestra 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z If Aska provides food that’s like a Mozart piano concerto — crystalline and delicate at the outset, then building to an orchestral swirl of flavors — then Smorgas Chef is classic rock — tried, true, familiar and comforting. A guide to Scandinavian food in New York City 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z Oh, the orchestra offered two concerti grossi by Handel on its own, and played them beautifully. Music Review: Philippe Jaroussky Performs at Metropolitan Museum 2014-02-26T22:22:56Z The works — two Nielsen concertos, one for flute and one for violin, and Tchaikovsky’s Second Symphony — spanned less than 50 years. Music Review: New York Philharmonic Performs Carl Nielsen’s Works 2012-10-11T22:30:40Z Led by the group’s director, Fabio Biondi, who played the principal part in the concertos for violin, the program offered a collage of works inspired by nature. Music Review: Europa Galante Brings Vivaldi to Zankel Hall 2014-02-12T22:55:33Z He has performed the five Beethoven concertos on two successive programs, and during the 2005-6 season he acknowledged the 250th anniversary of Mozart’s death by playing and conducting the 23 Mozart piano concertos. The Week Ahead: Nov. 20 ? 26 2011-11-18T22:01:22Z The passionate, thoughtful performances of the two concertos were part of the orchestra’s multiyear Nielsen survey. Music Review: New York Philharmonic Performs Carl Nielsen’s Works 2012-10-11T22:30:40Z Your career was made with Romantic concertos, but lately you’ve worked backward in time, now to the Baroque. Lang Lang, Piano Thunderer, Greets Bach’s Austere ‘Goldbergs’ 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z All of those adjectives, and many more, apply to the Marsalis concerto. NSO offers exuberant Marsalis concerto 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z The writing for the soloists is at times cruelly exposing, while the relationships between them constantly shift: the piano is nearly excluded at one point; at another, the work threatens to become a cello concerto. LPO/Eschenbach – review 2012-11-15T17:59:00Z In between were two arias and a concerto. Aurora Orchestra/Collon ? review 2011-01-09T22:30:01Z In 2011, his composition, a quadruple concerto Doppelgänger for two solo trumpets, two solo violins and double ensemble, premiered at the San Francisco Conservatory. Their Book Club for Two 2020-07-03T04:00:00Z There were Vivaldi concertos, but not the four usual ones. Hollywood Bowl veteran McGegan teams with 20-year-old talent Simone Porter for a winning night of Vivaldi 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z The concerto opens with a lone repeated note in an extended cello solo. Music Review: A Composer Who Rolled the Dice 2011-01-30T22:07:57Z Tchaikovsky’s third symphony is, like the Marsalis concerto, in D Major, and also like the concerto, full of big approachable graspable feelings, presented in an only slightly tidier package. NSO offers exuberant Marsalis concerto 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z His multifaceted “Lyra” is inspired by the Orpheus myth, which is often said to be at the heart of Beethoven’s fourth concerto. Contrasts Illuminate Beethoven in Philharmonic Festival 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z At its core was a plan to perform and record the five concertos with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, with Mr. Andsnes also conducting from the keyboard. Beethoven From Andsnes and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z He paired this with the Sonata for Two Pianos and an early piano concerto, No. 11, not often performed. Does Mozart Defy the Limits of Dance? Mark Morris Begs to Differ. 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z Their next Barbican residency together will be devoted to Brahms, with performances of all the symphonies and the four concertos spread across four programmes. 2013 classical and opera preview: Lulu in Wales and Disney at the ENO 2012-12-30T20:22:01Z After running through the piece with the Hannover Court Orchestra, and after Schumann's suicide attempt in February 1854, Joachim suppressed the concerto, believing it a reflection of the composer's erratic mental state and spiritual exhaustion. Violinist Isabelle Faust to appear with Seattle Symphony 2011-10-26T20:02:04Z The cycle will be performed in January in nine concerts, several of which will also feature Mr. Barenboim conducting Mozart piano concertos from the keyboard. Carnegie Hall Announces Its 2016-17 Season 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z In preparing the concerto’s somber opening notes, he said, he imagines the “angel of death” or cloaked figures singing a Gregorian chant, following his teacher’s advice. A 19-Year-Old Pianist Electrifies Audiences. But He’s Unimpressed. 2023-05-09T04:00:00Z In the concerto, Javier Perianes brought an unusual degree of sensitivity that clearly won over the crowd and the applauding orchestra. Dudamel, Mozart and the hope and joy of 1791 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z At the Kennedy Center on Thursday night, the National Symphony Orchestra presented a program of music to two ballets written for Paris on the eve of World War I, with a Mozart concerto between them. Violinist Gil Shaham leaves audience breathless during spellbinding NSO performance 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z An interesting hybrid was an instrumental rendition of “Brazil,” in which Mr. Feinstein at the keyboard played what he called “a mini piano concerto” with the band. Michael Feinstein Salutes Sinatra at Birdland 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z But with the violinist Leonidas Kavakos as soloist, the performance emphasized the rhythmically jagged and harmonically crunchy elements of the music in a way that made the concerto seem radical on its own terms. A Rare Side-by-Side of a Thrilling Stravinsky 2018-10-07T04:00:00Z The “Winter” concerto’s my favorite, and I glance at Vivaldi’s sonnets, translated in the program. O Cold Night! 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z “You are already one minute and a half into the concerto,” Noseda says, “and you start the concerto from scratch.” Perspective | The best way to understand a Beethoven concerto? From a musician’s point of view. 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z Bolcom’s ability to move between poles of emotion, in his rags and concertos, is part of the great charm of his music. Decades Later, a Composer Revisits the Piano Concerto 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z I remember learning a Grieg piano concerto in the wrong key, because my piano was a bit flat. Allen Toussaint, reluctant solo star 2013-11-07T15:52:00Z It is a Mozart sonata, not a concerto. Review: Choreographers Should Stay Away From Mozart. Except Mark Morris. 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z He was in California appearing with his Icelandic countryman Daniel Bjarnason, whose new piano concerto will premiere with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Mr. Olafsson next season. For This Pianist, Every Album Is an Essay 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z But though her performance of the concerto at on Tuesday evening was its belated New York premiere, it was also a homecoming of sorts. Music Review: Sound That?s Lush and Slow, Speedy and Precise 2011-02-16T22:49:49Z She said, ‘I finally know all the tunes in your concerto.’ Elliott Carter, Composer of the Avant-Garde, Dies at 103 2012-11-06T03:06:19Z He is eager to delve into composers he has yet to perform publicly, like Bach and Debussy, as well as concertos by Bartok and Liszt. Evgeny Kissin Will Indulge His Love of Yiddish Poetry at Carnegie Hall 2015-12-13T05:00:00Z Yet the concerto was Mozart’s for three pianos, and Mr. Gergiev not only conducted but also made a rare appearance as pianist, playing the rudimentary third-piano part, typically a celebrity showcase. The Verbier Festival Revels in Mixing It Up 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z He played as if the concerto had been a friend for years. Two Coasts, Two Concertos: Adès and Adams Offer Piano Premieres 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z It might mention Beethoven’s growing deafness — this was the only one of his five piano concertos he didn’t play himself at its premiere, because he couldn’t. Perspective | The best way to understand a Beethoven concerto? From a musician’s point of view. 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z For the evening's concerto, the omens were less clear. Too few hands applaud Gerard Schwarz's powerful return 2012-04-27T17:03:04Z A second performance 13 months later of a concerto by a major American composer featuring a prominent soloist is not unusual. Violinist Leila Josefowicz is a powerful storyteller in John Adams' 'Scheherazade.2' 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z If the oboe concerto shows Strauss at his most Mozartian, the Five Movements for Strings find Webern at his most inscrutable. Northern Sinfonia/Holliger | Classical review 2010-03-18T21:45:00Z After such a delay, though, her version seems a bit of a disappointment, lacking in the combination of poetic inwardness and dramatic purpose that is the essence of this concerto. Elgar: Violin Concerto; etc - review 2010-12-16T22:15:00Z But in every other way, this is a concerto like no other. Birtwistle premiere - review 2011-03-06T17:00:13Z What an opening Brahms crafted for this concerto, with timpani roaring and the rest of the orchestra declaiming abrupt, emphatic shouts of confidence. FSO trades timidity for vigor after intermission 2016-11-20T05:00:00Z When I first talked to him about the concerto 10 years ago, I played it for him and asked some questions about dynamics. Violinist Renaud Capu?on to play in Seattle 2011-09-15T19:23:07Z But Wednesday’s marathon survey of Prokofiev’s concertos, which lasted some three hours with two intermissions, proved fascinating, in part because at least two of these works are hardly ever performed. Review: In ‘Folk, Form, and Fire,’ Hosting a Party of Five for Prokofiev 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z The news of this St. Patrick’s Day night happened to be the West Coast premiere of a recent piano concerto of an avid Scottish separatist, James MacMillan. The global implications for a Scottish piano concerto based on the Rosary 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z His Beethoven and Brahms Symphonies remain among the most tightly reasoned and precisely executed on the market, and his collaborations on those composers’ piano concertos, with Leon Fleisher, are still the gold standard. ‘George Szell: The Complete Columbia Album Collection’ Review: A Maestro’s Time in Cleveland Still Shines 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z Fleck’s concerto, “Night Flight Over Water,” proved such a satisfying experience for both sides as they refined the piece that everyone wanted more. Béla Fleck and Brooklyn Rider join for Seattle concert Feb. 4 2014-01-30T20:25:30Z It’s entirely different from Chin’s earlier violin concerto, but equally powerful, and another worthy addition to the growing list of contemporary contributions to its genre. Unsuk Chin on the Violin Concerto She Swore She’d Never Write 2022-03-13T05:00:00Z Mr. Gilbert and the orchestra will record all the Nielsen symphonies and concertos for release on the Danish label Dacapo. Music Review: New York Philharmonic Plays Carl Nielsen Symphony 2012-06-15T21:52:06Z Then, starting Wednesday, he completes the Nielsen Program, the orchestra’s multiyear venture to perform and record the six symphonies and three concertos of the important Danish composer, for whom Mr. Gilbert has shown special affinity. Opera & Classical Music Listings for Sept. 26-Oct. 2 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z What the concerto lacks, perhaps, is grandstanding flash. Music Review: Philharmonic Returns to New York; Glenn Dicterow Is Soloist 2012-05-21T21:48:51Z "It's hard to talk about it," he said of the concerto. Danny Elfman can relate to 'Nightmare Before Christmas' hero Jack Skellington 2015-10-24T04:00:00Z Playing the Brahms concertos on a modern piano with modern orchestras, there were always balance problems. A Pianist Comes Around on Period Instruments 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z He does that in the concerto, and he also does a lot more, including sawing away on the strings in such a way that it got the whole Bowl vibrating. Gustavo Dudamel taps into the power of sound at the Hollywood Bowl 2017-08-23T04:00:00Z Korngold’s violin concerto was this Hollywood fixture’s first piece of concert music after more than a decade of film writing, and it borrows liberally from his catalogue. BSO at Strathmore: A well-balanced ensemble that hits right at the surface This concerto could fill the slot on orchestra programs that typically goes to Mozart or Beethoven. Hear 7 of the Best Works From a Neglected Era of American Music 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z Elfman, ever the productive songwriter, has already moved on, finishing a cello concerto and working on back-to-back film scores. Danny Elfman writes a solo album with ‘venom’ pouring out 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z On Friday, the festival will feature the premiere of a recently discovered violin concerto with an electronic part that Babbitt left incomplete after the center was vandalized in 1976. Making Milton Babbitt’s Legacy Less Fearsome 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z Following the concerto with “The Planets” proved crafty programming. Gustavo Dudamel taps into the power of sound at the Hollywood Bowl 2017-08-23T04:00:00Z Whereas his first concerto ends in a parade of riotous, Ives-like quotations — a cynical pileup of putatively patriotic melodic sentiments — the second is less obvious in its moods. Decades Later, a Composer Revisits the Piano Concerto 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z In an even more unusual move, the Boston Symphony recently announced that the concerto would return next February, again with Mr. Adès and Mr. Gerstein. A Pianist Has Cracked a Composer’s Code 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z It was the roar of a capacity audience thrilled by a knockout performance of one of the most popular of all concertos, Rachmaninov’s arch-romantic Piano Concerto No. 2. A knockout Night One of Rachmaninov fest 2013-01-04T16:38:19Z Her sweet-toned, expressive playing and the polished, buoyant sound of the Festival Strings Lucerne renders that concerto and the Violin Concertos Nos. Classical Playlist: Schumann, Mozart, Brahms and More 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z We’re sometimes led to think that musical masterpieces of the past fit partly into molds: sonata form, symphony, concerto. Wachner, Washington Chorus give powerful performance of ungainly ‘Missa Solemnis’ He played a Saint-Saëns concerto in a minor concert in 1956, but a greater honor came in 1959, when the conductor Charles Munch asked him to be the soloist for a subscription concert. Joseph Silverstein, Longtime Boston Symphony Orchestra Concertmaster, Dies at 83 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z Even so, there are moments in the concerto where flaunting Rachmaninov's material is no bad thing, and he was inclined to hold back a little too much. BBCSO/Oramo – review 2012-07-19T11:43:10Z The cellist — principal cello of the Seattle Symphony, and the current concerto soloist — got a hero’s welcome as he came out to play the Dvorák Cello Concerto with the orchestra and music director Ludovic Morlot. The audience was ready for Dvorák, and SSO’s cellist delivered 2014-03-28T16:07:36Z Three of the four works were concertos; the only orchestral components were some pleasant yet inconsequential arrangements of three Granados Spanish Dances of which only Dance No. 6 showed snap and life. State Symphony of Mexico missing homegrown flavor 2015-03-08T05:00:00Z The first of the Bach programs, featuring his violin concertos plus suites and fantasias by 17th-century British composer Henry Purcell, is Saturday at Town Hall. Ingrid Matthews says farewell to Seattle Baroque Orchestra 2012-10-04T20:04:07Z Yet it operated on the concerto grosso principle whereby the pulse is relayed from one group of soloists to another like electrical charges round a nervous system. Northern Sinfonia/Zehetmair 2010-06-07T21:20:00Z He contrasted concertos in D major and minor, and made explicit the connections between two Mozart works — arguments that were more persuasive from the keyboard than from his perch as conductor. Review: The Philharmonic’s Artist in Residence Wears Two Hats 2023-04-16T04:00:00Z The piano takes center stage at the Mostly Mozart Festival, when two pianists known for their probing musicianship join the festival orchestra in some of Mozart’s most beloved concertos. Beloved Concertos at the Mostly Mozart Festival 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z For a moment, it wasn't clear which concerto he was about to play. Riveting Schubert and a sparkling debut at the Hollywood Bowl 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z He rants about Descartes, human destiny, time’s linearity, Neoplatonism, economic theory, the concertos of Alban Berg. It’s the End of Humanity. Maybe It’s for the Best. 2020-12-01T05:00:00Z Each program included a piano concerto, with Christian Zacharias as the soloist. Music Review: Bamberg Symphony Led by Jonathan Nott at Avery Fisher Hall 2012-05-22T22:06:14Z Wang’s Bartók cycle, her main project of the year, was all but derailed when Hungarian pianist and conductor Zoltán Kocsis died in November, ending her project of touring and recording the concertos with him. The importance of being the L.A. Phil 2017-06-04T04:00:00Z Its purposely “detuned” sound darts out from behind the imposing edifice of Wang’s playing in the concerto’s first section, just after six minutes and 45 seconds have passed. Music, Theater and More to Experience at Home This Weekend 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z “What’s important is this interval. It recurs everywhere in the concerto. This same halftone idea.” Bronfman Braces for the Five Piano Concertos 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z The disc does, however, include the Concerto Macabre, Herrmann's concert version of the lethal concerto from Hangover Square, thrillingly done with the electrifying soloist Martin Roscoe. Herrmann: Citizen Kane; Hangover Square 2010-04-08T21:20:00Z Yuja Wang was soloist for the New York premiere of Mr. Adams’s piano concerto “Must the Devil Have All the Good Tunes?,” which she and the orchestra introduced earlier this year in Los Angeles. Are Bruckner Symphonies Now the Proving Ground for Conductors? 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z "When I started hearing the actual concert works for the saxophone - various sonatas and concertos - by some of our top figures, I was really taken by that." Classical Saxophone in Proms spotlight 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z "If you hear any of his orchestral music - his symphonies, concertos, or his song-cycle Correspondances - you're immersed in an irresistible kaleidoscope of instrumental colour and, above all, a world of heightened feeling," said Service. French composer Dutilleux dies at 97 2013-05-22T14:11:20Z Elgar wrote his concerto in 1919, at the conclusion of World War I. Yo-Yo Ma is marvelous during a strange night at Hollywood Bowl 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z The opening passages of the concerto were taken at such a clip that conductor Ludovic Morlot and the orchestra were hard-pressed to keep up. Stephen Hough and the Rach 3: a leap-out-of-your seat experience 2012-06-15T15:04:04Z Though he responds to the concerto’s sharp mood changes, he doesn’t make the most of some of the most striking. Dance Review: Underworld Notes, in the Homeric Sense 2014-02-02T22:31:20Z Stepping in for a missing colleague, Joel Fuller burned through the stinging winds of the Vivaldi “Winter” concerto, with an ear for painterly effects across the ensemble. Review | Everyone’s a soloist in Eclipse Chamber concert 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z In the opening of the concerto, which begins with a series of ominous chords that grow in sound and intensity, Mr. Lugansky voiced each one to highlight harmonic intricacies. Music Review: Finding the Soul of Russia Everywhere 2011-04-15T23:00:14Z Within this interpretive arc, the slow — only moderately slow — second movement emerged more emphatically than ever as the heart of the concerto, building up a sense of profound self-communion. Review: The return of the ranking cellist ? Yo-Yo Ma 2010-12-08T19:22:00Z In Chopin’s day, every emerging pianist was expected to show himself off in his own concertos. Trifonov and Andsnes: Different Generations, Same Curiosity 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z Composers at the beginning of the 20th century – primarily Stravinsky and Bartók – began to acknowledge the acoustic truth of the piano's percussive and resonant nature and re-envisage the concerto form. Composing for the piano in black and white 2010-06-03T22:05:00Z The results: Participants responded correctly at a significantly faster rate during the Spring concerto than during the other three sections of the work, or while performing the task in silence. Study: Vivaldi boosts mental vitality 2013-03-13T21:38:00Z It takes the whole body to play the Brahms concerto. For Glenn Gould, Form Followed Fingers 2010-09-25T21:04:00Z Throughout the concert Mr. Botstein drew stylish, committed work from the orchestra, moments of rhythmic laxity in the concerto notwithstanding. Music Review: A Composer Left Out in the Cold 2011-03-30T22:27:30Z The Sibelius concerto, also demanding for the orchestra, and the other preceding work, Ravel’s “Rapsodie Espagnole,” had obviously taken a toll. Juilliard and the Manhattan School of Music Play Strauss’s ‘Ein Heldenleben’ 2015-03-01T05:00:00Z The ending of “Mozart Dances,” like that of “Così” and the 27th concerto, is hopeful but not cloudless. Does Mozart Defy the Limits of Dance? Mark Morris Begs to Differ. 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z The next year, “Flow,” a chamber concerto, emerged, and seemed to capture a little bit of everything from Marshall’s voice. Ingram Marshall Built and Obscured Monoliths of Sound 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z In the 1980s, there was a bassoon concerto, commissioned by a Polish group in Milwaukee, lamenting the murder of the Warsaw priest Jerzy Popieluszko, and a symphony in support of Solidarity. Celebrating Panufnik, a Polish Composer in London 2014-11-28T05:00:00Z There was a confluence of great concertos by great composers over eight years between 1931 and 1939, from Barber, Britten, Prokofiev, Schoenberg, Bartok, Stravinsky ... Violin star Gil Shaham to bring Mozart concerto to Seattle 2012-10-17T18:53:05Z This Elo effect, in the case of “Lost on Slow,” is superimposed upon a selection of individual movements from six Vivaldi violin concertos. Dance Review: A Danish Modern Twist Updates Classical Ballet 2011-06-15T22:03:19Z The program’s centerpiece is the world premiere of a genuine rarity: a double harp concerto, commissioned by the Seattle Symphony, with the composer Hannah Lash as one of the two soloists. Review: Seattle Symphony shines in major works by women composers, despite last-minute conductor change 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z The work - and her performance of it - had plenty of tweeters in raptures: Exquisite performance of Ravel's piano concerto in G by Imogen Cooper! Proms week 1 in review 2012-07-17T16:32:23Z By contrast, the concerto in D minor, BWV 1052, again Bach's own transcription of a concerto originally for violin, embraced more passionate engagement, with flowing rhythms and contrapuntal lines. Kammerorchester Basel/Schr?der/Hewitt 2010-05-25T21:00:00Z Throughout the Nielsen concertos and a galvanic account of the Tchaikovsky symphony, Mr. Gilbert was strikingly vigorous on the podium: not quite Bernstein-level hyperactivity, but far more active than usual for him. Music Review: New York Philharmonic Performs Carl Nielsen’s Works 2012-10-11T22:30:40Z When he awoke, he excitedly told his wife that he had the opening for a cello concerto he was working on for Yo-Yo Ma. Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Philharmonia play larger than life on Southern California tour 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z But the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra’s recording under David Robertson — with Timothy McAllister, for whom the concerto was composed, as soloist — makes a far better, more seductive and varied case for it than Thursday’s performance. Review: A Conductor Adds Her Name to Philharmonic Contenders 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z The conductor Joel Sachs, in his introduction, mentioned an orchestral version of Mr. Moore’s concerto; would that the New York Philharmonic could be persuaded to investigate while Mr. Coleman, 81, is around to participate. Music Review: New Juilliard Ensemble in 2 Premieres - Review 2011-09-25T21:55:41Z The full concerto cycle brings both player and listener from the sparkling Classicism of Beethoven’s early years to a seething grandeur on the cusp of Romanticism. Bronfman Braces for the Five Piano Concertos 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z But there are still connections to the traditional concerto form; early on, the shamisen breaks into a cadenza-like solo of dizzying rapidity that evokes prog-rock guitar as much as Paganini. Hundreds of New Concertos Bring the World to the Concert Hall 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z In the last two decades he has also written more than a half-dozen concertos and symphonic works at Tanglewood, many of them for instrumentalists in the Boston Symphony. Musical Titan Honors His Heroes 2011-08-18T17:15:27Z The oboe concerto is one of Strauss's most skittish creations, though its opening phrases are so exultant the music literally never pauses for breath. Northern Sinfonia/Holliger | Classical review 2010-03-18T21:45:00Z He managed to set up this commission for me to write the violin concerto for the Proms. Gabriel Prokofiev debuts concerto 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z It was a stark contrast to the orchestra’s playing in the concerto, which was off-kilter much of the way through. Maxim Vengerov Performs With the Philharmonic 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z It includes his two symphonies, a piano concerto, a variety of chamber music and what is reckoned to be his greatest achievement, the opera Monbar, or the Filibusters. Dobrzyński: Overture to Monbar; Piano Concerto; Symphony No 2 – review 2013-07-11T16:58:46Z A quarter-century ago a very young Ms. Mutter was performing and recording the Brahms and other major concertos with Herbert von Karajan and the Berlin Philharmonic. 2010-02-11T08:29:00Z The program closer, “Method,” set to two movements of Bach Brandenburg concertos in a New Zealand Guitar Quartet arrangement, resembles Paul Taylor’s classic Bach romp, “Esplanade,” but on fast-forward. Review: Black Grace, From New Zealand With Incredible Speed 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z His recordings with Szell remain benchmarks for their clarity, precision and sheer expressive musicality; Brahms’s first piano concerto was a touchstone. Leon Fleisher, sublime pianist undaunted by mysterious hand malady, dies at 92 2020-08-02T04:00:00Z Here it is a cello concerto equivalent to the “Sacrificial Dance” from Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring.” New Concerto, New Leader: A Big Day at the New York Philharmonic 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z “Mirage,” a string quartet, evokes both the desolation and the power of the Israeli desert; “Spices, Perfumes, Toxins!,” a kaleidoscopic percussion concerto, builds on the mingled allure and peril of the substances in its title. A Composer Not Afraid to Mash Things Up 2011-04-10T02:00:17Z The Mariinsky Orchestra comes in November with Scriabin’s Symphony No. 3, a gloriously overheated work that will still pale in comparison with Daniil Trifonov’s playing his own piano concerto the next evening. What to Look Forward to in the Fall Classical Music Season 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z Is that why composing concertos or quartets doesn’t appeal? Why You’ll Probably Never Hear a Sondheim Concerto 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z His flawless delivery of the Rachmaninov, regarded as the most fiendish of all concertos, only confirmed his keyboard mastery. Sinfonia Cymru/Jones 2010-05-03T21:30:00Z Artists were entirely in control of their repertoire, not following the program of their orchestra or touring the same handful of concertos. For Classical Music, Spring Was the Season of Solos 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z The stage was already set up, however, for Mr. Norman’s piece, a percussion concerto, with dozens of instrument of all kinds arranged in two groups on either side of the conductor’s podium. Review: Premieres, a Tribute and an Anniversary at Carnegie Hall 2016-05-01T04:00:00Z Conducting three concertos from the keyboard, Mr. Kahane seemed less the star soloist than the empowering leader of a collaboration among gifted, eager artists. Review: ‘The public domain’ Beats the Heat and Humidity 2016-08-14T04:00:00Z The museum was conceived by Rostropovich to honour his friend and the Soviet Union's greatest composer, who wrote two concertos for the gifted cellist. St Petersburg's homely tributes to Russia's great artists 2012-11-20T13:56:01Z While he won’t be turning into a contemporary music specialist, Mr. Trifonov is in the early stages of collaborating with a composer on a new concerto. Not Just a Philharmonic Residency: Daniil Trifonov Is a New Yorker 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z He composed concertos that featured the French horn, the contrabassoon or various percussion instruments. Gunther Schuller, Pulitzer Prize-winning composer who bridged jazz and classical music, dies at 89 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z “It invites a powerful reimagining of what the concerto can be and do. Stylistically and expressively, she put her own stamp on the genre.” Clara Schumann and Florence Price Get Their Due at Carnegie Hall 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z There was overlap of composer and performer in Timo Andres, whose works were well represented but who also served as the soloist — twinkling, patient and tender — in Ingram Marshall’s humbly gorgeous piano concerto “Flow.” At 75, the Ojai Music Festival Stays Focused on the Future 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z A cinematic ballad titled “The Color of My Dreams” becomes a concerto of sorts for the vibraphonist Stefon Harris. Review: Ben Williams Steps Up on ‘Coming of Age’ 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z The brilliant pianist Yefim Bronfman, artist-in-residence with the orchestra this year, will be the soloist in three programs over three weeks, performing the five Beethoven piano concertos and his Triple Concerto. Classical & Opera Listings for June 6-12 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z Mr. Dean’s 25-minute concerto, in a single movement with five sections, is an intensely dramatic and mercurial piece. Review: She Returns to Lead the Philharmonic. For Real, This Time. 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z Along with that lush violin concerto, several Knussen chamber works are on the bill with works by Elgar and Brahms in the Symphony's Nov. 20 chamber-music series. Q&A with composer/conductor Oliver Knussen 2011-11-10T22:22:05Z Conductor Piotr Gajewski presided over a sympathetic ensemble with Bailey in the concerto and an elegantly shaped and graceful performance of the Mozart “Prague” Symphony No. 38 to end the evening. National Philharmonic’s program of Haydn, Mozart favorites delights young audience members 2015-01-11T05:00:00Z The conductor and pianist Leonid Kreutzer conducted Beethoven’s fifth piano concerto from the keyboard; “I thought that was amazing,” Ozawa says. Ozawa: A pioneer who dedicated his life to Western music 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z This remarkable discovery of an unpublished concerto by one of the world's best-known composers shows the outstanding quality of the collections in the National Archives of Scotland. Vivaldi flute concerto discovered 2010-10-07T09:26:00Z Sift through tuxedos, gowns, ties and jewelry while enjoying Gershwin tunes, Bach concertos, Joplin rags and more from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Weekend Miser: Back in Time on Governors I. and at Lincoln Center 2010-07-15T21:02:00Z There's so much going on – the birth of the violin, the violin's big brothers, the orchestra, the piano, the concerto, the symphony, the modern 12-note-to-an-octave system of tuning. Howard Goodall's Story of Music; Being Human; Borgen – TV review 2013-02-04T07:00:06Z Coming right after the new concerto, “Must the Devil Have All the Good Tunes?,” it gave a moving summary of how far Mr. Adams has come over 40 years, in musical complexity and emotional nuance. Two Coasts, Two Concertos: Adès and Adams Offer Piano Premieres 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z The encores were a movement from a CPE Bach concerto and, with an orchestra bass player and harpsichord, "Autumn Leaves." Marsalis, Philadelphia orchestra go by the book at the Wallis 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z But with the right colleagues in chamber music and the right conductor in concertos, reined in just a bit, Ms. Argerich is often incomparable. Classical Playlist: Mozart, Schubert, Goffredo Petrassi and More 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z Saturday’s matinee pairs the Brahms concerto with Dvorak’s String Quintet in E flat, with Alan Gilbert taking up the viola alongside the Philharmonic players. Classical & Opera Listings for May 22-28 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z Like two of the other premieres on the program, “Fog Mobiles” is a concerto of sorts, but it manages to do interesting things with the genre. Music Review: Orchestra of the League of Composers at Miller Theater 2012-06-05T21:54:39Z For a concerto representing a subculture of a subculture — Scottish Roman Catholics — “The Mysteries of Light” unveils far more than sectarian mysteries. The global implications for a Scottish piano concerto based on the Rosary 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z This appearance was part of the orchestra’s “Concentric Paths” tour, the title being that of Mr. Adès’s exhilarating 2005 violin concerto, featured in the tour. Music Review: Britten Sinfonia Makes American Debut at Alice Tully Hall 2012-02-23T23:53:29Z Never mind that the program, of the concerto and Rachmaninoff’s Second Symphony, contained over 90 minutes of music. Review: Upended by Global Conflict, the Vienna Philharmonic Plays On 2022-02-27T05:00:00Z “His recent performance of the piano concerto ‘to an utterance’ was brilliant, and I found it deeply expressive,” she wrote. A Pianist Adapts to Life With Parkinson’s Disease 2023-08-07T04:00:00Z They plan to continue commissioning new repertoire, particularly triple concertos, from composers who reflect their artistic taste. When One Instrument Speaks in Three Voices 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z The music was anxious and harried enough to infect the concertos programmed on either side of it. Jeffrey Kahane Conducts New York Philharmonic 2014-03-21T22:19:16Z Had someone been paying attention, however, Ma and Sollima might have been invited to play Sollima’s double concerto, “Antidotum Tarantulae XXI,” which the two cellists premiered with the Chicago Symphony two years ago. At USC and Disney Hall, finding the body and soul of the cello 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z And he tended to offset extremely fast playing with extremely slow, more maundering than meditative: a manic-depressive approach that might be appropriate to Tchaikovsky’s “Pathétique” Symphony but not to this vital concerto. Music Review: Mariinsky Orchestra, Valery Gergiev and Daniil Trifonov - Review 2011-10-13T20:20:50Z In the mercurial second movement she eagerly responds to each mood swing in the music, turning in a standout performance of this masterful concerto. Bach, Reich, Bartok, Beethoven and More 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z In his final concert as music director in May, he will do what he is perhaps best at: perform a Mozart piano concerto, leading the orchestra from his seat at the keyboard. Jeffrey Kahane to end 20-year run as LACO conductor with his most ambitious project: a festival devoted to tolerance 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z The concerto remains, though, a considerable stretch for orchestral players. Zubin Mehta's L.A. return gives Shankar raga a proper home and makes Strauss hero's journey personal 2017-01-14T05:00:00Z "I mean, I do play Beethoven, Brahms, Mozart, Tchaikovsky and other things - Britten, for example," he said, referring to the British composer's violin concerto coupled on his Challenge Classics recording with Weinberg's concerto. German violinist Roth champions 'forgotten' Weinberg 2014-03-04T08:03:44Z Likewise the horns in the piano concerto acquired new definition. Dance Review: New York City Ballet at the Koch Theater 2013-01-16T22:42:20Z BBC4 Paul Lewis continues his epic contribution to this year's Proms, proceeding through all five of Beethoven's piano concertos. Watch this 2010-07-29T07:00:00Z Widely regarded as the world's ranking cellist since the death of Mstislav Rostropovich — the dedicatee of both concertos — Yo-Yo Ma, Tuesday's soloist, is a musician never to be taken lightly. Review: The return of the ranking cellist ? Yo-Yo Ma 2010-12-08T19:22:00Z Ehnes premiered a violin concerto written for him by Howard in 2015 and has since become a champion of his music. Hollywood composer James Newton Howard unveils world premiere at Seattle Chamber Music Society’s Summer Festival 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z These big, beautiful concertos should evoke some sense of delight; this performance was unfailingly earnest. Philly beguiles with symphonic power 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z Still, having been trained by arguably the best Russian teachers in the world, Cliburn's heart was Russian, with the Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff concertos. Van Cliburn, American classical pianist, dies 2013-02-27T17:19:28Z The concerto seems to take a sudden turn into the tragic with this Adagio, written in a halting siciliano dance rhythm. Louis Langrée and Richard Goode Featured at Mostly Mozart 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z With the Schumann piano concerto, featuring Nicholas Angelich as soloist, Morlot is trying to counteract what he sees as a neglect of a great composer. Composer Elliott Carter’s symphonic gift for the SSO 2013-01-31T23:01:18Z Koussevitzky conducted the 1948 premiere of Fine’s bright and brassy Toccata Concertante, which Fine described as having “a certain affinity with the energetic music of the Baroque concertos.” Celebrating the Works of Irving Fine, Born 100 Years Ago 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z Mozart’s teenage keyboard concertos were pastiches of other composers’ scores. Music Review | New York Philharmonic: Jeffrey Kahane Leads the New York Philharmonic 2010-03-26T20:47:00Z It is hard to say who is the greater virtuoso in the new oboe concerto by Marc-André Dalbavie: the oboist or the composer? BBCSO/Belohavek ? review 2010-12-21T22:01:00Z In the concertos, too, there were nothing blaring or brusque, no sense of the Classical as curt. Review: Cleveland Orchestra Plays Mozart, and to Its Strengths 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z The Romantic movement emerged from the Classical heritage, in which composers expressed themselves through large, formal structures: symphony, sonata, string quartet, concerto. ArtsBeat: The Top 10 Composers: The Romantics 2011-01-19T12:00:08Z The G major concerto, whose composition Ravel interrupted to write the Left Hand Concerto, is a lighter and more sparkling affair. Jean-Yves Thibaudet joins Symphony, Morlot for Ravel 2013-09-15T14:01:09Z While the concerto was hardly made for video, that too proved a major plus, with a soloist as charismatic as Kuusisto. Gustavo Dudamel taps into the power of sound at the Hollywood Bowl 2017-08-23T04:00:00Z After all, I naturally thought at the time that these completely uncensored and uncritical essays were of the greatest value – I remember one piano concerto stretching to 20 pages. Marc-Andr? Hamelin: Performer or composer? 2010-08-26T21:44:00Z It’s why he is playing the Scriabin concerto, a personal favorite, with the Philharmonic — and why, next May, he will give a rare performance of Alexander Mosolov’s 1927 concerto with the Nashville Symphony. Not Just a Philharmonic Residency: Daniil Trifonov Is a New Yorker 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z At nearly 30 minutes, this accordion concerto is a substantial but volatile piece which repeatedly changes direction and mood. BBCSO/Hrůša – review 2012-11-25T18:41:57Z The concerto, lasting about 23 minutes, was a single movement with three contrasting sections, first featuring the pitched instruments, then the indefinitely pitched ones and, finally, the marimba. Review | Percussion concerto offers less bang than whimper 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z Her new clarinet concerto is a commission from the Philharmonic and four other orchestras. Classical Music/Opera Listings 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z The camera is one instrument in a concerto, working in tandem with editing, production design and sound to create an overall experience. Do Cinematographers Have a Signature? Let’s Try a Test 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z Unlike the grand Romantic concertos of old, it’s not an argument between the soloist and the orchestra, or an effort to reconcile them. Review: Boston Symphony Gives Harrison Birtwistle’s ‘Responses’ an American Premiere 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z There had been plans for an expansive choral piece and a violin concerto. Celebrating the Works of Irving Fine, Born 100 Years Ago 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z His operas, concertos and piano pieces are little-performed these days, and this new recording offers a rare glimpse of his chamber works. Classical Playlist: Brahms, Arvo Pärt and Gorczycki 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z There's plenty to savour: cycles of Beethoven piano concertos, Mahler symphonies and Scriabin orchestral works, and a celebration of Henry Wood, plus a spectacular opening weekend. This week's new live music 2010-07-09T23:06:00Z But if Thursday’s program was a missed opportunity, it offered a remarkable performance of the Beethoven concerto as its centerpiece. Review: Philadelphia Orchestra Plays Music From Vienna 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z But commissioning a six-minute miniature is one thing, finding the money for a full-scale concerto is another. O Duo: 'It's not just music. It's visual, too' 2010-09-30T22:25:00Z The name of Schoenberg may still scare audiences away, but the concerto got a standing ovation from a full house. Gustavo Dudamel celebrates his 36th birthday with some Schoenberg 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z A percussionist and pedagogue in Strassbourg, he begins his concerto, which was written 2006, with a string theme cinematically soupy enough that it might underscore the opening credits of a forgettable French tear-jearker. Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra explores Mozart by way of Sacred Harp, Haydn by way of flamenco 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z They would play something like a dozen pieces each: preludes and fugues, chorales, chorale preludes, sonatas, concerti, variations, and “free” works drawn from Bach’s five decades as a working organist. Bach in New York 2014-12-03T05:00:00Z It then remained precisely the same through the rest of the concerto, with little variety of color besides some liquid rolled chords near the end. Music Review: Jan Lisiecki Makes Debut With New York Philharmonic 2012-12-14T22:19:09Z You could argue that the Brahms double concerto is not about size and feeling at all. Eschenbach and the NSO play Brahms and Tchaikovsky The concerto, written for Inon Barnatan, who was the soloist at the Bowl, had its premiere in July at the Aspen Festival, of which Fletcher is president and chief executive. Dvorak's 'New World' and a new piano concerto for our times at the Hollywood Bowl 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z Salonen promptly asked her whether he could write a violin concerto of his own for her — and was impressed anew by her authority. Perspective | A star violinist rebels against what she’s supposed to play — or wear. 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z Why did he think Stravinsky’s “Dumbarton Oaks” concerto was a good fit for them? The Knights Play Stravinsky and Bartok in Central Park 2014-07-23T04:00:00Z The second piano concerto is one of those blisteringly difficult pieces that are catnip to audiences. Review: Passel of Frenchmen fit into symphony's evening 2010-06-11T18:48:00Z The piece, which was given its premiere on Thursday evening by the New York Philharmonic and Alan Gilbert at David Geffen Hall, is in effect a 25-minute concerto for mezzo-soprano and orchestra. Review: ‘Canta-Concerto’ by Marc Neikrug by the New York Philharmonic 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z In these, he advocated for quarter tones and dreamed up a double concerto for two soloists playing in different keys — a century before Ives. A Friend of Beethoven, Now Rediscovered in His Own Right 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z Act 2 offers us all three movements of Rachmaninov's second piano concerto, intermittently overlaid with electronic pops and gurgles. Tatyana – review 2013-02-03T00:05:42Z The new concerto is now one that could be staged. Violinist Leila Josefowicz is a powerful storyteller in John Adams' 'Scheherazade.2' 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z During the concerto, he instinctively moved with choreographic grace that complemented his expressive playing. Review: A Mostly Mozart Milestone, and an Immersive Lineup 2016-08-08T04:00:00Z Why perform one or two of Prokofiev piano concertos when you can present all five at once? The Best Classical Music of 2016 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z The innovation in Lang's concerto, written for the ensemble So Percussion, is evasive. Twigs break, cans bang and L.A. Philharmonic soars with Mahler 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z Mr. Lang has written a concerto in which unusual percussion instruments try to mingle with the orchestra, though the traditional instruments are initially baffled by the strange intruders. Wine Bottles, Twigs and Trash Cans Join the Mostly Mozart Orchestra 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z This program, one of the most eclectic on the Philharmonic’s calendar, brings two pieces of Ligeti’s into dialogue with Brahms’s Serenade No. 1 and a piano concerto by the living modernist Elena Firsova. The Philharmonic’s New Season: What We Want to Hear 2023-03-21T04:00:00Z Rodrigo is sort of a 20th century Vivaldi; his many amiable concertos are all cut from the same cloth, even the same color of cloth, so two in the same concert is tiring. Munich Symphony Orchestra tries too hard not to drown out guitarists 2015-11-08T05:00:00Z Superficially, this 1966 setting of Shostakovich's second piano concerto is one of MacMillan's more conventional works; yet the transparent simplicity of his slow central movement is radical in itself. The Royal Ballet – review 2012-11-18T16:30:01Z Schumann's concerto opens with an orchestral salvo — a single, punched chord — which acts like a bolt of electricity to shock the piano into action. Martha Argerich mesmerizes the L.A. Phil 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z At 19, as soloist with the Hallé, he gave an astonishing concert of three concertos in one evening, by Bach, Mendelssohn and Brahms. Raymond Cohen obituary 2011-03-22T18:23:06Z “Terrestre,” an intimate kind of flute concerto for five players, begins with quivering in the solo instrument, here played by Claire Chase, the fearless founder of this year’s house band, the International Contemporary Ensemble. At Ojai, Peter Sellars Has a Personal Yet Global Playlist 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z Programming algebra, however, is not necessarily linear, and none of these things added up to an illuminating performance of one of Mozart's lesser-played concertos, a piece for connoisseurs who marvel at its craftily hidden delights. Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra explores Mozart by way of Sacred Harp, Haydn by way of flamenco 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z The new season also brings the next phase of the orchestra’s plan to perform Carl Nielsen’s six symphonies and three concertos and record them for the Dacapo label. New York Philharmonic Announces Next Season?s Schedule 2012-02-22T17:04:47Z The Tchaikovsky concerto performance, featuring the seasoned pianist Stephen Hough, was not altogether unwelcome despite its redundancy. Music Review: Minnesota Orchestra at Carnegie Hall - Review 2011-10-30T22:51:59Z Hancock, a child prodigy who performed a Mozart concerto with The Chicago Symphony at age 11, credits Davis for paving the way for his own career longevity. Herbie Hancock goes global for "The Imagine Project" 2010-06-23T20:55:00Z It's an emphasis that's carried into the sleeve notes, too, which contain two articles about Allegrini, no more than a dozen words about the concertos and nothing at all about the Orchestra Mozart. Mozart: Horn Concertos ? review 2011-08-18T21:20:01Z He found hints of dark corners in Mozart's most fluidly lyrical concerto where others would not think to look. Sun shines on Hollywood Bowl guest conductor Ludovic Morlot 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z One of several works commissioned by the Royal Philharmonic Society in its bicentenary year, Old Racket is effectively a concerto grosso for strings. BBCSO/Davis – review 2013-04-15T17:13:40Z Rachmaninoff’s second piano concerto is a staple of the repertoire, one of the most popular and most accessible of piano concertos, delivering its statements in big Technicolor blasts. Review | A strong pianist tries, and fails, to save an evening 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z He was commissioned to compose and perform a piano concerto for the Japanese Emperor Akihito's 10th year on the throne in 1999. X Japan realizes dream of first U.S. tour; see the group Friday at the Paramount 2010-09-30T20:45:00Z He is writing a piece for the violinist Hilary Hahn’s encore series and a concerto for two percussionists and a narrator. A Composer Not Afraid to Mash Things Up 2011-04-10T02:00:17Z David Washburn, the stellar piccolo trumpeter, had the eloquent last word with his lone concerto, the Fourth. ‘Brandenburg’ Concertos at Alice Tully Hall 2014-12-14T05:00:00Z They were equally impressive in Britten's concerto, sometimes the adversary to soloist Steven Osborne, sometimes his partner in crime. CBSO/Volkov – review 2013-02-07T15:24:27Z And his point is not just about the arcane jargon of "concerto" and "oratorio". Doomed? 2011-05-12T12:33:19Z In concert halls, Mr. Greilsammer has played, among many projects, the complete Mozart piano concertos in a series of concerts with the Geneva Chamber Orchestra, conducting himself, and has recorded several of them splendidly. At the Piano, and Under the Hood 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z There are 15 great cello concertos against 40 great violin concertos. Wispelwey: Loneliness of the long-distance cellist 2013-01-31T11:21:34Z The orchestra rallied, a lot, for the Mozart clarinet concerto, which Sinaisky, a big, powerful figure on stage, conducted with a soft, firm touch, a sense of power deliberately restrained. Debuting conductor offers experienced path through ‘The Bells’ 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z In the late 1920s, a time of radical developments in contemporary music, this concerto represented Rachmaninoff’s way of being modern. Review: Leif Ove Andsnes Blazes Out a Rachmaninoff Rarity 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z “We sold out all three concerts in April for the Wynton Marsalis trumpet concerto, with Dvorak’s ‘New World’ on the second half. After a ‘Scary’ Fall, Audiences Are Coming Back to Orchestras 2023-05-23T04:00:00Z He began to hallucinate that the piano was growing larger and larger, and from this came the inspiration a dozen years later for his extravagant, Minimalist two-piano concerto. John Adams on a big Beethoven kick in San Francisco 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z Playing and conducting from the keyboard, he performed the two concertos on tour and recorded them in 1999. Music Critics? Picks for Chopin Bicentennial 2010-05-27T21:03:00Z There were just 40 minutes left in the final session in the studio; the Dvorak concerto is 34. The Berlin Philharmonic Comes to New York 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z He began playing the piano at 4, had founded his own ensemble by 12 and made his National Symphony Orchestra debut in 1995 playing his own piano concerto for outreach programs. Perspective | The Soulful Symphony reinvents itself, elevating music’s American roots 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z The unconventional view was Oliver Knussen’s violin concerto, which is a “canonic” piece for no one but the composer and Josefowicz, who has performed it dozens of times. Review | Two ways of looking at a canon: the NSO goes Romantic 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z It was the first time I’d ever seen him struggle, and the moment I realized he was capable of much more than showy war horse concertos. The Best Classical Music of 2018 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z The schedule also includes the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra, which will perform Max Richter’s “Vivaldi: The Four Seasons Recomposed,” a contemporary expansion of the popular set of Baroque concertos. A Season's Worth of Music in a Weekend at Knoxville's Big Ears Festival 2014-11-12T05:00:00Z Every time Morse says, "Lewis" in an irritable tone, every time he drives his beautiful old Jaguar, every shot of Oxford accompanied by a heartbreaking concerto. Natalie Haynes's guide to TV detectives: #14 – Morse 2012-07-30T11:20:37Z Love the look of a piano and the sound of concertos but not quite able to master the notes? Meet the World’s Best (Automatic) Pianist 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z The recipe worked splendidly last season, when the Seattle Symphony presented a “Rachfest” with young virtuosi playing Rachmaninoff piano concertos. First night of SSO ‘Tckaikfest’ a runaway hit 2014-01-17T19:05:59Z She continues in her role as composer-in-residence with the world premiere of a newly commissioned violin concerto for SSO’s 14th annual Celebrate Asia concert on March 20. Highly sought-after composer Reena Esmail debuts new piece with Seattle Symphony 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z The contestants spend three weeks playing technically demanding Chopin works, from studies and preludes to large forms like the sonatas and, finally, concertos, performed on stage. Jury to choose winner of prestigious piano contest 2010-10-20T16:22:00Z The disorienting, otherworldly atmosphere of Adams’s concerto was carried into those elevated seats as the dancers slowly materialized where we least expected them, blooming like alien spores. Jessica Lang Dance, Leila Josefowicz and the NSO, waltzing together onstage Maybe the concerto, written around the time Beethoven was working on his “Eroica” Symphony but traffics instead on early 19th century pleasantries, was the wrong work for Pálfalvi. Cutting the Hollywood Bowl down to size 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z He was also particularly excited to be able write in the concerto form. Gabriel Prokofiev debuts concerto 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z But as concerto followed concerto, the dances diminished in size, and the movement lagged at times to the point of lugubriousness. Review: In ‘Six Brandenburg Concertos,’ Diluting Bach’s Dancing Spirit 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z What can we expect from the new concerto? Highly sought-after composer Reena Esmail debuts new piece with Seattle Symphony 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z Schonberg wrote that Shure’s Brahms was “massive and rocklike, as if he were carving the concerto from the piano.” Box Sets Highlight Leonard Shure and Howard Karp 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z Start with two sibling creations: say, Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 2 and Timo Andres’s “The Blind Banister,” a concerto closely related to it, at least in the mind of Mr. Andres. Review: Beethoven Gets a Sequel at the New York Philharmonic 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z Theresa was soloist for the world premiere of the concerto, which was performed by the Northwest Chamber Orchestra. Philharmonia Northwest presents old and new music created entirely by Seattle composers 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z All that safely in the can, Mr. Robertson turned to the remaining works for the concerts, the Britten concerto and Mussorgsky’s “Pictures at an Exhibition” in Ravel’s orchestration. National Youth Orchestra Prepares for Concerts 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z His remarkable solo set included excerpts from a banjo concerto "that I just wrote" and a thoughtful, then a rapid-fire progressive bluegrass workout in honour of his early banjo hero Earl Scruggs. Oumou Sangaré and Bela Fleck – review 2012-07-19T17:00:01Z “Rough Music” is an eclectic three-movement concerto for a wide range of percussion instruments. Composer Gruber to conduct Bernstein, Stravinsky, his own ‘Rough Music’ at SSO 2013-04-11T20:43:51Z The concerto is a way of symphonic life. Concertos take the lead at L.A. Phil, L.A. Chamber Orchestra 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z In the German Pavilion, French-Albanian artist Anri Sala produces a multimedia installation of musical recordings and videos of a piano concerto composed by French composer Maurice Ravel for the left hand. Prominent pavilions at the Venice Biennale 2013-06-01T06:26:10Z Intended to show the influence of the master’s pioneering concertos for multiple instruments, it also offered concerti grossi by Corelli and Handel. Review: Venice and Vivaldi, Center Stage at the Metropolitan Museum 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z The best way to understand a Beethoven concerto? Review | From the NSO, with love: Noseda and orchestra in Valentine’s Day programs 2019-02-16T05:00:00Z A modern concerto grosso more difficult to play than it sounds, the work demands immaculate balance. Music Review: The New York String Orchestra at Carnegie Hall 2013-12-29T20:02:41Z The Cleveland Orchestra performed his quartet concerto “Dithyrambe” with the Emerson String Quartet. A modernist master’s Mozartean face: Rihm writes for Barto’s pianos 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z Mozart's D minor concerto also "hooks up" with the foreboding in "Doctor Atomic," Robertson feels. At SSO: Adams' 'Doctor Atomic Symphony' 2011-12-29T21:18:04Z But next time, leave Mr. Markov and his concerto at home. Music Review: World Peace Orchestra Makes Its Debut 2013-09-11T20:03:29Z MacMillan's Concerto is one of the choreographer's rare abstract dance works, virtuoso dance set to Shostakovich's second piano concerto and hinging on a central pas de deux of beautifully sustained lyricism. This week's new dance 2010-10-15T23:06:00Z Former Police drummer Stewart Copeland's latest work, a percussion and orchestra concerto, is set to be premiered at Liverpool Philharmonic Hall on Friday 23 May. Police drummer Copeland's new concerto 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z But if the concerto has something to offer, it's because Prokofiev is wary of merely indulging in showmanship and throws musical substance into the mix. Gabriel Prokofiev gets the Proms into the groove 2011-07-28T20:29:01Z A disconsolate sense of exile permeated Korngold's violin concerto, conceived in Hollywood by the Austrian Jewish composer shortly after the defeat of the Nazis. BBCPhil/Mena – review 2013-01-28T18:41:13Z Andras Schiff has been performing both as pianist and conductor with the New York Philharmonic this week, in a program including concertos by Bach and Schumann and orchestral works by Haydn and Bartok. Martha Memories: The Week’s 8 Best Classical Music Moments on YouTube 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z Brahms also wrote epic concertos, sonatas and chamber works that at once honored and utterly transformed the Classical forms. ArtsBeat: The Top 10 Composers: The Romantics 2011-01-19T12:00:08Z Its subdued ending led, without pause, to the dramatic burst that begins another work in A minor: Robert Schumann’s war horse piano concerto. Review: Schumann at the Philharmonic. Robert, Too. 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z After a survey of Debussy's complete piano music, and another devoted to Haydn's sonatas, he turns his attention to Bartók's piano concertos. Bart?k: The Piano Concertos 2010-08-26T21:42:00Z Composed in memory of Mr. MacMillan’s mother, who died in 2008, the concerto derives its considerable emotive impact from graceful and grotesque elements juxtaposed with a dreamy illogic. Music Review: A New Scottish Concerto, Dressed Up and Dreamy 2011-03-03T21:49:11Z Bjarnason said he's curious to see how his concerto pairs with Holst's "Planets" on the program's second half, but Kuusisto is confident it will hold its own in such mighty company. A 'beast' of new Icelandic music will premiere tonight at the Hollywood Bowl 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z Three brilliant young soloists performed concertos with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, led by the veteran conductor Gerard Schwarz, who was himself discovered by Young Concert Artists as a trumpeter in 1971. Review: Young Concert Artists Gala Features Three Rising Soloists 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z “Le Mozart Noir” — “the black Mozart,” as Saint-Georges, who died in 1799, is sometimes called — will not only present a rare opportunity to hear two violin concertos by the elusive figure. Concert brings to light forgotten works by 18th-century black composer 2017-01-29T05:00:00Z Yet for all this, the even greater ambition of the evening may have been the way in which Dudamel framed the concerto. The draw of Yuja Wang and Bartók brings surprising consequences 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z The smaller orchestra used for the Ravel concerto looked almost like a chamber ensemble by comparison, appropriate for the refined performance Ms. Cooper gave. Music Review: ‘City Noir,’ by John Adams, at Lincoln Center Festival 2012-07-13T21:21:56Z Bela Fleck – Maura On a Bicycle, Stout and Mollasses, Way Back When A concerto for banjo, fiddle and bottleneck guitar, this summons mental images of Paul Newman careening around New Mexico. Readers recommend: hunting songs 2010-07-29T23:03:00Z It was also rewarding to hear these concertos performed by a conductor and orchestra so immersed in Prokofiev’s operas and ballets, core works at the Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg. Review: In ‘Folk, Form, and Fire,’ Hosting a Party of Five for Prokofiev 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z His performance of the Chopin concerto, though rich with poetic grace, lovely sound and flashes of brilliance, was less confident. Review: Maurizio Pollini Reunites With the Philharmonic and Makes Up for Lost Time 2015-10-18T04:00:00Z After a slow, four-minute monologue for solo cello, the concerto takes flight in luminous strings and a yearning, gently rising theme played by Gabetta with extraordinary tenderness. CD reviews: Music that conjures emotionally charged spaces. 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z With her performance of the Bruch concerto, Ms. Mutter, who made her New York debut in a recital at Carnegie Hall in 1998, began her Perspectives series at the hall. At Carnegie Hall Opening, Delving Into Levity’s Layers 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z Brahms is getting special treatment too, with the Philharmonic performing his complete symphonies and concertos. New York Philharmonic Announces Next Season?s Schedule 2012-02-22T17:04:47Z I know all Leonidas’s repertoire, but especially his Beethoven concerto and all the sonatas. Unsuk Chin on the Violin Concerto She Swore She’d Never Write 2022-03-13T05:00:00Z The same illusion was employed in Mr. Takemitsu’s filigree violin concerto “Far calls. Coming, far!,” in which the solo line travels alongside another instrument for brief stretches, discovering and discarding common traits. Two Juilliard Concerts, Bonded by Weather 2015-02-01T05:00:00Z On this latest tour he is playing two of the later concertos, the famous A major work, K488, and the big-boned, imposing C major concerto K503. This week's new live music 2013-02-16T06:00:00Z But British harpsichordists snapped up his works when they were published, and Charles Avison, the program’s one native Englishman, alluded to Scarlatti’s pieces in his own concertos. Music Review: Baroque 4x4 Festival at St. Peter’s Lutheran Church 2012-08-28T21:04:06Z New to the UK was Šu, a concerto for the sheng, or Chinese mouth organ – a description that scarcely does justice to a cumbersome but immensely versatile instrument played with staggering command by Wu Wei. Total Immersion: Unsuk Chin ? review 2011-04-11T17:31:24Z The range of colour he draws from the instrument, later in that same movement of K503 but also in its equivalent in the E flat concerto K482, is exquisite, each phrase perfectly weighted. Mozart: Piano Concertos K 482 and 503 ? review 2010-12-02T22:55:00Z The clarinet repertory isn't exactly overflowing with great solo concertos from the 20th century, but these are two of the finest. Copland & Finzi: Clarinet Concertos, etc 2010-04-29T21:15:00Z But this performance featured the premiere of David Lang’s new arrangement of “man made,” his single-movement concerto for percussion and orchestra, written in 2013 for the four brilliant players of So Percussion. Wine Bottles, Twigs and Trash Cans Join the Mostly Mozart Orchestra 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z Along with a trio sonata by Telemann, there were five concertos on the program. At Seattle Baroque Orchestra, virtuosity of a collegial kind 2014-01-19T18:23:06Z The usual choreographic response to concertos, following the Balanchine model, uses the full dance company in the fast outer movements but focuses the slow movement on a sustained supported adagio or pas de deux. Dance Review: Paul Taylor Dance Company at the Koch Theater 2012-03-30T20:37:16Z The last piece on the program, Stravinsky’s “Dumbarton Oaks” concerto, was just three years old at that Phillips concert in 1941, a reminder of the importance of presenting contemporary music for this series. Phillips Collection reproduces 1941 program inaugural concert of weekly series 2016-05-30T04:00:00Z The New York Philharmonic retreats this weekend into a program out of the 1950s: the overture to “Die Fledermaus,” Mozart’s “Turkish” violin concerto and Brahms’s Fourth Symphony. Classical Music This Week: Schubert, Bloland and Lip-Synching ‘Salome’ 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z As a product of the hothouse world of competition and performance, Villani was playing Tchaikovsky's first piano concerto and Rachmaninov's second in his native Melbourne at the age of 17. Pianist Angelo Villani: 'It's easy to lose sight of sharing moods and emotions' 2012-10-02T16:16:25Z The concertos were performed along with works by composers variously influenced by Ligeti. Review: Ligeti Forward Celebrates a Master Modern Composer 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z The concerts, conducted by David Robertson, include Mr. Williams’s “The Imperial March,” from the movie “Star Wars”; his bravura tuba concerto with the orchestra’s own Alan Baer as soloist; and Holst’s ever popular “The Planets.” Classical Music Listings for May 20-26 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z “When I finish the concerto, if I put my right hand on the piano, it is completely numb.” Jean-Yves Thibaudet joins Symphony, Morlot for Ravel 2013-09-15T14:01:09Z Lisa Batiashvili, the prominent Georgian violinist, recently called it “the American violin concerto”—a piece that sums up a nation’s sensibility, the way Sibelius and Tchaikovsky and Elgar did in their violin concertos. CD Notes: Keith Jarrett’s “Barber/Bartók” 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z In 1981 he put out a series devoted to another of his enthusiasms, Mozart's piano concertos, the subject of a book he had written in 1971. Sir Denis Forman obituary 2013-02-25T13:46:32Z A full concert featuring the Vivaldi as well as Corelli’s “Christmas” concerto and Tchaikovsky’s sextet for strings, “Souvenir de Florence,” is at 8 p.m. Next SSO ‘Untuxed’: Vivaldi and Emma McGrath 2013-12-12T20:46:32Z Yes, Mozart was among the most performed composers at the Proms in their first half-century – but he achieved that prominence through the inclusion of countless operatic arias and concertos, rather than his symphonies. The Proms are richer than ever – even without Mozart's symphonies 2012-07-26T17:30:01Z The Concerto No. 5 comes close to harpsichord concerto territory. Music Review: ‘Brandenburg’ Concertos at St. Paul’s Chapel 2012-12-28T23:48:01Z The soloist was Cynthia Phelps, the Philharmonic’s impressive principal violist, who played the world premiere of the concerto this summer in North Carolina. New York Philharmonic’s Next Leader Gives a Taste of Things to Come 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z This ensemble delivers a program that hops happily across the centuries, with music by Geminiani, Beethoven, Clara Schumann and, most intriguingly, a new piano concerto by Christopher Cerrone, “The Air Suspended.” 7 Classical Music Concerts to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z Soloists are always the focus in a concerto, of course, and Ms. Jansen was not playing in a vacuum. Music Review: A Dutch Orchestra Plumbing the Depths 2010-02-19T04:35:00Z There is a shared youthful exuberance in the Mahler symphony and the Beethoven concerto, the great composers exulting in their blossoming ingenuity. A hero's welcome for Esa-Pekka Salonen at Disney Hall 2016-01-31T05:00:00Z “For now, I think it’s a little bit too early to play only my work,” he said, but added that he would play his concerto a number of times over the next few years. Daniil Trifonov, New to Rachmaninoff, but a Bold and Youthful Echo 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z Goodyear was tapped to play this appealing curiosity for his Philharmonic debut, his only appearance to date, even though his concerto repertory is large. Extraordinary Beethoven, and an Adventurous Streak 2021-05-21T04:00:00Z In keeping with the company’s distinguished track record with modern music, the season has included admirable performances of difficult but fascinating scores like the violin concertos of Thomas Adès and Esa-Pekka Salonen. Critic?s Notebook: At City Ballet This Winter, You Could Sometimes See the Music 2011-02-28T23:15:07Z The program includes the G minor oboe concerto, the A minor violin concerto and Brandenburg VI, among other pieces. Who's on the guest list? Gilbert Varga, Emerson Quartet and Pink Martini 2010-04-08T20:14:00Z No. 3 is perhaps the most frequently performed 20th-century piano concerto after Rachmaninoff’s, but the last two are usually dusted off only as part of a performance or recording cycle. CD reviews: Cliburn medalist takes on Prokofiev with Fort Worth Symphony 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z She looked as if she were waiting to receive her orders from the percussionists — which is, in a sense, how Britten constructed the soloist’s voice in his taut concerto. A Violinist as Riveting in Silence as in Sound 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z Wood's concerto was framed by utterly different but almost exactly contemporary works from either side of the Channel: Elgar's In the South and Debussy's La Mer. Proms 16 & 17: BBC Now/Wigglesworth; West-Eastern Divan Players – review 2012-07-27T11:11:44Z On the first, the superb violinist Christian Tetzlaff is soloist in a Mozart rondo, Bartok’s Second Concerto and a new concerto by the brilliant British composer Harrison Birtwistle. Looking Ahead: Time to Turn the Page 2010-12-30T23:28:26Z The concerto does not begin like a conversation, however. Boston Symphony Shows Verve Even Without Levine 2011-03-16T06:11:47Z “I was so tired,” Lim, who played concertos by Beethoven and Rachmaninoff in the final round, said in a telephone interview. At Cliburn Competition, Pianists From South Korea, Russia and Ukraine Triumph 2022-06-19T04:00:00Z The concerto was written in 1965, the year of "Juliet of the Spirits," a movie stimulated by Federico Fellini's experiments with psychedelic drugs and séances. L.A. Phil covers lusty Modern Italian with gusto 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z The music is brilliant but if you play a piano concerto of Beethoven, that's already been done a million times by brilliant pianists. Scala & Kolacny brothers: How Creep made a choir go global 2011-07-14T20:29:01Z On the surface, the piece has the form of a Baroque concerto grosso, but the two forces seem to exist on separate planes, heightening the symphony’s solitary feel. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z Although this style suits Mendelssohn’s romantic concerto there is a danger of gilding the lily and reducing the music to salon entertainment. Orpheus Chamber Orchestra at Carnegie Hall 2015-02-08T05:00:00Z This was the composer’s last concerto, first performed less than two months before he died, at 35, in 1791. Review: The New York Philharmonic Pays Tribute to Orlando 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z I don't think you should ignore the idea that a concerto is designed to let soloists show off. O Duo: 'It's not just music. It's visual, too' 2010-09-30T22:25:00Z It might be easy to see why so dramatic and timely a concerto by one of most heralded and popular composers would easily catch on. Violinist Leila Josefowicz is a powerful storyteller in John Adams' 'Scheherazade.2' 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z It is there, at a concert of amateur musicians who are Vietnam War veterans, that this aimless Canadian hears the janitor’s unfinished concerto, named for a fellow soldier. ‘One Discordant Violin’ Review: In Search of Soul-Stirring Art 2019-11-03T04:00:00Z With Mr. Aimard exemplifying Gallic wit in the Ravel concerto, the orchestra delivered an unbuttoned reading, and it showed a fine restraint in Debussy’s “Faun.” Review: Valery Gergiev Galumphs Through Schubert 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z Do we need another recording of Chopin’s piano concertos? The 25 Best Classical Music Recordings of 2017 2017-12-13T05:00:00Z Yes, I know: Another week, another Beethoven concerto. Review: The Philharmonic Tries Out Another Temporary Home 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z The concerto ended with a sprightly, energetic rendition of the finale. Contrasts Illuminate Beethoven in Philharmonic Festival 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z The centerpieces are piano concertos: two by Haydn and Ligeti’s uproarious, rhythmically knotty contribution to the genre. The Best Classical Music Recordings of 2016 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z But Mr. Aimard has a wide repertory and was a penetrating soloist in the Beethoven concerto. Guests Artists Enliven the Mostly Mozart Festival 2019-08-05T04:00:00Z One of the breakthroughs of 20th-century choreography was its revelatory discovery of concert music, so that ballets to concertos, symphonies and other works never intended for dance were expanded onstage in dance terms. New York City Ballet Offers Two Weeks of Stravinsky 2012-09-16T07:17:23Z "It's lovely playing to an audience who screams like it's a pop concert when you play a Haydn concerto!" Alison Balsom: The top brass 2010-10-07T21:45:00Z Ultimately, Mr. Watts was unable to perform the concerto because of the pandemic. André Watts, Pioneering Piano Virtuoso, Dies at 77 2023-07-14T04:00:00Z In a minimarathon on Friday and Saturday nights, he played the three Bartok piano concertos with the Budapest Festival Orchestra, conducted by Ivan Fischer. Music Review: Andras Schiff at Carnegie Hall - Review 2011-11-01T23:23:53Z Though written in one movement, the concerto is episodic and fitful. Music Review: Conductor Makes Philharmonic Debut With Sufi Poetry and Celestial Yearnings 2011-03-04T23:52:30Z A stream of chamber miniatures emerged, as well as balletically elegant concertos. Elliott Carter 2012-11-06T03:26:13Z But it was Shostakovich’s first violin concerto that was the real tour de force. Two exquisite, artistic concerts hosted at the Kennedy Center on Sunday 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z But the Baroque era hovers in its concerto grosso-style balance of individual voices and ensemble, and in striking fugal passages. Music Review: New York String Orchestra at Carnegie Hall - Review 2011-12-31T00:30:22Z Too often, premieres have short rehearsal periods; then, unless future performances are lined up, or unless soloists champion concertos written for them, the music can easily disappear. Review: At the Philharmonic, a Conductor Argues With Passion 2023-01-22T05:00:00Z Over the next few years, Cliburn’s international popularity continued as he recorded pieces ranging from Mozart to a concerto by American Edward McDowell. Van Cliburn, American Classical Pianist, Dies 2013-02-27T20:06:33Z The dramatic first movement begins with contrapuntal busyness that evokes Bach’s minor-key concertos. Music Review: Proud Parents With Cameras, Clicking Away 2010-12-26T21:39:04Z When this South American virtuoso was here last, I dubbed him a “top-tier cellist,” and he resoundingly reaffirmed that Thursday, conquering the longest and most difficult concerto in the standard repertoire: the Prokofiev “Sinfonia Concertante.” NSO review: Despite the stellar guest soloist Bohórquez, consistency is lacking "We got on well, I really liked how he played, so we started talking about doing a violin concerto," says Prokofiev. Gabriel Prokofiev debuts concerto 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z It is a much more personal statement than playing a concerto. The Way to Carnegie Hall? Success 2011-01-14T20:17:09Z I also practice in a dark room because the concerto opens with a dark sound on bass and cello. Teen violinist Mari? Rossano to solo on Shostakovich with Seattle Phil 2011-04-07T19:29:04Z Here, however, her dress happened to be completely in character with Bartók’s concerto and the metallic, rhythmically tight way she played it. The draw of Yuja Wang and Bartók brings surprising consequences 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z Mr. Barnatan’s pianism was playfully agile in the concerto, yet delicate, defiantly so, against the menacingly united front of the orchestra in the second movement. Review: Beethoven’s Biggest Concert, Now With Heat 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z Some of its motifs are based on the diatonic “do, re, mi” scale tones, but little about this 30-minute concerto in three connected parts seems elementary. Christopher Rouse and EarShot Premieres From Philharmonic 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z Ms. Higdon’s concerto is a showpiece in the classic Romantic style. Music Review: Sound That?s Lush and Slow, Speedy and Precise 2011-02-16T22:49:49Z And if you've heard a more alert, intelligent, conversational, intuitive and responsive accompaniment to a Beethoven concerto, in their performance of the Second Piano Concerto with Paul Lewis, I'll eat my hat. What makes a great conductor? Just watch Andris Nelsons 2010-07-30T16:19:00Z A sizable orchestra and conductor with a rhythmic drive is just what the concerto needs. The Pacific Symphony lives up to its name, with the help of India 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z There was real strength in the architecture – it made sense as a whole, which this strange concerto doesn't always. BBCSSO/Manze – review 2012-10-28T14:00:38Z What one does takes away from initial visits to the concerto will likely revolve about Josefowicz. Violinist Leila Josefowicz is a powerful storyteller in John Adams' 'Scheherazade.2' 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z The first, in E flat, was dedicated to Brahms, though musically it owes much more to Mendelssohn and Schumann, without ever matching either composer or even Bruch's own violin concerto. Bruch: Symphonies Nos 1 & 2 2010-04-15T21:50:00Z The concertos of Sibelius and Tchaikovsky, in which his violin cut jubilantly through the orchestral forest in even the most acrobatic passages. Itzhak Perlman, Violin Legend, Still Proves the Critics Wrong 2020-08-26T04:00:00Z “So much of the concerto is appearance, and knowing when to start and stop. You’re always thinking.” Watch Ping-Pong Make Its New York Philharmonic Debut 2018-02-19T05:00:00Z It was supposed to be a double bill of concertos by female composers. Review | Percussion concerto offers less bang than whimper 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z Iyer writes in the program notes that he rejects the concerto cliché of individual against the masses. Vijay Iyer jazzes up the Ojai Music Festival 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z Mr. Meister was most impressive with the orchestra, offering, in addition to the Mozart overture and the Haydn concerto, a compelling performance of Beethoven’s Fourth Symphony. Review: Mostly Mozart, Highlighted by Sol Gabetta’s Haunting Vocalise 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z And now “Lost Coast” is taking on yet another life, its grandest yet: a cello concerto, premiering on Thursday with Cabezas and the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Gabriella Smith’s Music Marvels at Nature With Grooving Joy 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z Susan Walters, who will perform its piano solo, said: “It’s like a complete concerto. Everything is large except for the amount of time.” A Ballerina Steps Out — as a Choreographer 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z This book is the first of an anticipated four novels in a seasonal cycle, in the manner of Vivaldi’s violin concertos or George Winston’s Schroeder-like piano albums, and clearly it was written quickly. He’s 101, She’s 32, and It’s the End of the World 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z The concerto is less overtly theatrical, though hardly less inventive musically. Review: Met Opera’s Next Maestro Energizes His Philadelphians 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z Listening to her recording of Bartok’s concerto, he said, he hears “a quality that she shares with great improvisers — call it élan, or sprezzatura.” Hear the Martha Argerich Recordings That Inspired 8 Young Pianists 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z But for Robertson and Shaham, the pairing of the two concertos made musical sense. At SSO: Adams' 'Doctor Atomic Symphony' 2011-12-29T21:18:04Z Time was when a concerto was the audience favorite on a program. Soloist-turned-conductor impresses with NSO’s Mahler 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z When they spoke, Rautavaara said he did not want to write another concerto, but that he was drawn to the idea of a suite of serenades. A Composer’s Notes Echo After His Death 2021-03-05T05:00:00Z The concerto notably lacked orchestral majesty, and it was left to Hilary Hahn, sensitive yet unfussy as always, to expose its emotional contours with dignified restraint. Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie/J?rvi 2010-07-28T10:49:00Z While this Third Symphony wasn’t among the belatedly recovered fantasies, concertos and unfinished Fourth found therein, it still bears a brassy, untouched, artifactual glow. Review | My spirits needed a lift. Violinist Hilary Hahn and the NSO delivered, in D major. 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z For all its power and character, this is a confusing concerto and a challenging listen. Violinist Leila Josefowicz is a powerful storyteller in John Adams' 'Scheherazade.2' 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z Those stretches of ad hoc chamber music were the concerto’s high points. At the Kennedy Center, Eschenbach casts the NSO in standard but staunch roles 2020-01-25T05:00:00Z On Friday at 8 p.m. there’s Mahler’s Ninth Symphony and a Mozart piano concerto with Jonathan Biss. Classical Music Listings for July 29-Aug. 4 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z Concerto Köln, a formidable German period-instrument group founded in Cologne 30 years ago, played a curious program of lesser-known concertos by a range of composers — Telemann, Corelli and Francesco Durante, along with Vivaldi and Handel. Early music is still being reinvented 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z The Haydn symphony and the Beethoven concerto, on the other hand, represent each composer at his height, and each performance was a joy. Mostly Mozart Showcase Three Masters at Lincoln Center 2014-08-03T04:00:00Z She also misjudged dynamics of the mysterious, deep opening of Ravel's concerto. Mark Swed hits the road for a weekend of SoCal orchestra listening 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z Yes, that’s “Tchaikfest!” as in a Tchaikovsky festival of four concertos, three for piano and one for violin, taking place over two concerts. Beat the winter blahs with 2 nights of Tchaikovsky, at SSO 2014-01-09T21:08:07Z Salvaged partly from an abandoned violin concerto, the music was restored here to its initial function, serving to showcase vivacious playing from the violinist David Fulmer. Music Review: Janacek and Mahler in Moving Sounds Festival - Review 2011-09-20T21:00:08Z Learning to Fly follows a more traditional fast-slow-fast concerto form, again using distilled and intelligently deployed textures. Philharmonia/Sokhiev/Wigglesworth 2010-04-19T22:00:00Z When performers play any piece they’re excited by, from a Beethoven string quartet to an Andrew Norman piano concerto, they are championing it. Just Why Does New Music Need Champions? 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z There were virtuosos on the instrument who also wrote sophisticated dance arrangements and concertos for it. A Renaissance for an Instrument of Melancholy Magic 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z Performed at the start of the festival’s closing concert on Monday, which featured the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra, Sessions’ concerto brought the ensemble from an initial burst to a final lush, slow section. Tanglewood Holds Its 50th Celebration of Contemporary Music 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z Even the opening orchestral statements in the Beethoven concerto were full of Haitink hallmarks. LSO/Haitink – review 2013-02-18T18:04:50Z That’s peculiar, given his prominence in Europe, his prolific, pioneering output — eight titanic symphonies and an array of operas, concertos and more — and the ever-increasing prominence of Scandinavian musicians within the field. Review: ‘Norgard in New York’ Culminates in Rarefied Atmospherics 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z "What we were searching for was an unknown soloist at a level to perform a concerto with the symphony on its flagship series," said Bob Moir, PSO's senior vice president of artistic planning. Orchestra contest finds no winner 2012-06-12T09:12:25Z From there, variations surface with nods to Classical and Baroque forms: a dancerly minuet or rondo, a concerto grosso of angular strings, a wandering ricercare. The ‘Succession’ Soundtrack Is Fit for a Concert Hall 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z Rachmaninoff, who long admired the Philadelphia Orchestra, performed the first three of his piano concertos with the ensemble under Eugene Ormandy there in 1939. Yuja Wang, Daredevil Pianist, Takes on a Musical Everest 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z Friday’s concert at Carnegie includes the New York premiere of Mr. Norman’s percussion concerto “Switch.” Pennies From Utah Revive a Symphony 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z The soloist in the concerto was Leila Josefowicz, finely attuned both to the ambivalent sense of calm-before-the-storm nostalgia that pervades the outer movements, and the flippant brilliance of the scherzo with its Classical Symphony overtones. LSO/Zhang ? review 2011-04-06T18:00:29Z A more familiar model of the concert experience was represented on Thursday’s program by the “Emperor,” the last and grandest of Beethoven’s piano concertos. Seattle Symphony reaches another high with John Luther Adams’ searingly beautiful ‘Become Desert’ 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z Structurally, it's effectively a four-movement violin concerto, with a string quartet in place of an orchestra, while the piano mediates between the two. Lortie/Dumay/Quatuor Eb?ne 2010-05-31T21:45:00Z Beethoven was also in the picture three years ago when the San Francisco Symphony premiered Adams' "Absolute Jest," a concerto for string quartet and orchestra. John Adams on a big Beethoven kick in San Francisco 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z Most pianists are content to perform just one Liszt concerto in an evening, but not the redoubtable Hough. Cos? fan tutte; Dream Hunter; Commotio; Stephen Hough, LPO/Alsop ? review 2012-02-12T00:06:08Z Throughout the concerto, Rouvali was a willing accomplice, lending the score the clarity it requires with a whiff of daring. Review: A Guest Conductor Reveals the Philharmonic’s Potential 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z This concerto is known as a defiant oxymoron, a ravishingly beautiful twelve-tone piece — not only is it beautiful, but it incorporates a folk tune and, yes, a Bach chorale. Review | Noseda ends his NSO season with 3 B’s, and a bang 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z His 1983 percussion concerto, “Rough Music,” intersperses delicate lines on tuned instruments with explosions of rhythmic and dynamic high jinks, entertaining yet fraught with desperately serious undertones. Masterful maverick HK Gruber leads thrilling program | Classical review 2013-04-19T16:44:35Z The program’s scheduled opener, which followed, was Chopin’s first piano concerto, played by Louis Lortie with a demure liquid elegance. Philadelphia Orchestra offers new tellings of old stories 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z The concerto offers a tantalizing impression of organic development and proliferation. Review: A Concerto Conjures the Creation, With Video 2023-02-17T05:00:00Z These violin concertos – Britten wrote only one, Shostakovich two, the first of which is on this disc – date from the 1940s. Britten & Shostakovich – review 2013-06-08T23:05:25Z The Prokofiev concerto had an entirely different character than the heavier one Dudamel made last year in Caracas with Wang and the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela. L.A. Phil alum Lionel Bringuier wows in Zurich 2014-09-20T04:00:00Z He is playing Bach’s Concerto for Two Violins and his sonatas for violin and keyboard, a Brahms chamber concert and the violin concertos of Berg, Beethoven and Dvorak. Music: A Call for More New Music From New York Philharmonic 2012-01-06T17:00:00Z His large output of recordings ranged from the unaccompanied sonatas and partitas of JS Bach to the two concertos by Belá Bartók and that by Alban Berg. Josef Suk obituary 2011-07-08T19:20:03Z Still, she was more than up to the challenges of this virtuosic concerto, which was also one of the happiest works on the program. Review | A worthy tribute that didn’t stint on the talent: Wolf Trap fetes Corigliano at 80 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z “Aren’t you afraid to play this concerto for the Russians?” a Russian journalist asked her. Inside the NSO’s grand return to Russia 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z Indeed, the main work, Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto, is likely the most played concerto throughout the Bowl’s 95-year history. A little Russian diplomacy saves the day at the Hollywood Bowl 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z Taking its title from a saying attributed to Martin Luther, the concerto deconstructs and reassembles impulses from funk, gospel and barrelhouse. Contemporary music icon John Adams is both composer and conductor in Seattle Symphony return engagement 2021-12-27T05:00:00Z If Wednesday’s program, a Mozart piano concerto and a Bruckner symphony, didn’t work here, nothing else would matter — not the more spacious lobbies or the auditorium’s wraparound seating or the stylish restaurant. The Philharmonic Tests Its New Home With the Classics 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z Well known for his piano concerto, piano miniatures and the incidental music for “Peer Gynt,” Grieg wrote few larger-scale works and only one complete string quartet. Amphion String Quartet at Alice Tully Hall 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z Muti's replacement was gracious enough to take up two of the three works Muti was planning to conduct, including Stravinsky's Divertimento from "The Fairy's Kiss" and the Brahms concerto. Andsnes' commanding Brahms lifts Muti-less CSO concert out of the ordinary 2011-02-18T16:33:00Z It’s no surprise that Mr. Petrenko’s true Beethoven triumph was last August, in the Ninth Symphony, whose Romanticism leans more toward Wagner than does the concerto’s Classicism. Musicians Love the Conductor Kirill Petrenko. It Shows. 2020-01-24T05:00:00Z The Philharmonic can certainly play the Adès concerto, but its textures were not as clear or vivid on Thursday as they can be: the darknesses not as brutal nor the transparencies as shimmering. Review: A Concerto Conjures the Creation, With Video 2023-02-17T05:00:00Z Like a concert from the era of pandemic livestreams, it consisted of two Classical piano concertos and two orchestral works, with a changing ensemble size that, at its largest, was still small. Review: The Philharmonic’s Artist in Residence Wears Two Hats 2023-04-16T04:00:00Z Paul Lewis performs the five Beethoven piano concertos at the Proms. Five difficult pieces 2010-04-22T22:00:00Z The concerto was especially fine: You could see the joy in the performers’ faces and movements as much as you could hear it in the playing. Review: Juilliard415 and Yale Schola Cantorum Perform Bach’s Lutheran Masses 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z But it has had a long-ranging influence on some of the most beloved piano concertos that came after it. Clara Schumann and Florence Price Get Their Due at Carnegie Hall 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z The lineup then was Sibelius' Symphony No. 4, the Grieg piano concerto and Schumann's "Konzertstück" for four horns and orchestra. ArtsBeat: Levine's Comeback Concert to Include Work by Schubert and Beethoven 2012-11-29T21:18:01Z In June, Dacapo Records will release a boxed set of the complete symphonies and concertos in time for the 150th anniversary of Nielsen’s birth. New York Philharmonic Responds to Attacks in Paris 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z Ten years later she made her concerto debut. Saxophonist Dickson plays classics, pop and saves lives too 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z With opposites generating so much positive energy, it was a shame that the program was made up of such similar music, with even the concerto showing Beethoven at his most Mozartean self. Review: New York String Orchestra Offers Youthful Energy and a Lush Sound 2015-12-27T05:00:00Z The concerto’s chugging rhythms make Ginastera’s lively atonal idiom feel accessible, understandable. Review: Los Angeles Philharmonic Makes the Familiar Feel Fresh 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z “We’re in a cadenza fermata,” he said, referring to the moment in a classical concerto when the orchestra drops away and the soloist takes off on a flight of fancy. Concerts Disappeared. Piano Sales Survived. 2020-06-29T04:00:00Z Instead, this new concerto was presented in Germany, at the Heidelberg Spring festival. Decades Later, a Composer Revisits the Piano Concerto 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z From her superb Stradivarius violin, Faust drew a honeyed tone with depth as she played this beautiful concerto with guts where needed and an expressive, singing tone. Danish conductor wows Benaroya crowd 2011-11-04T17:40:05Z This time it will be the concertos for violin, flute and clarinet. New York Philharmonic Announces Next Season?s Schedule 2012-02-22T17:04:47Z Even more intriguing, Mr. Chandler offers what is billed as the world premiere recordings of concertos for violin “in tromba marina.” Classical Playlist: Brahms, Vivaldi and Tallis 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z The Saturday night program was part of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra’s Baroque Conversations series, with the cello soloists also conducting baroque concertos. 109 cellos and one obsession in Walt Disney Concert Hall 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z Vivaldi is sometimes sniffily disparaged for "writing the same concerto again and again", yet Bach, whom everyone reveres, rated Vivaldi highly enough to transcribe several of them. In praise of ? musical reinvention 2011-01-04T00:13:02Z The brilliant pianist Yefim Bronfman, artist in residence with the orchestra this year, will be the soloist in three programs over three weeks, performing the five Beethoven piano concertos and his Triple Concerto. Opera & Classical Music Listings for June 13-19 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z Shaw’s work also maximizes the structure of a piano concerto. Caroline Shaw piano concerto premiere turns classical tradition on its head 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z An innovative 1945 work, a concerto for piano and orchestra called “Lousadzak,” used elements of aleatory music, with instruments repeating phrases in random, uncoordinated fashion. ?American Mystic? Marks Alan Hovhaness?s Centennial 2011-11-04T20:26:09Z As Mr. Adès has put it, it’s a “proper piano concerto,” along the lines of Mozart or Bartok. Two Coasts, Two Concertos: Adès and Adams Offer Piano Premieres 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z Though Mr. Lewis has a wide repertory, he has been making his name through his performances and recordings of the complete Beethoven piano sonatas and piano concertos on the Harmonia Mundi label. The Week Ahead: Feb.13 ? 19 2011-02-13T01:06:05Z We are used to watching him play challenging concertos and études effortlessly. The Best Classical Music of 2018 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z This concerto is challenging and wandering and dotted, in its sprawling first movement, with cadences that send the soloist’s bow seesawing across the strings while his fingers race though whole fistfuls of notes. Kavakos, Eschenbach offer ragged emotional truth in NSO concert 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z The problem with writing a percussion concerto is how you make it a satisfying musical experience as well just a flipping noisy one. O Duo: 'It's not just music. It's visual, too' 2010-09-30T22:25:00Z I thought I could really explore and enjoy the theatrical potential of the concerto” The weight of history may be on his shoulders, but it hasn't cramped his creative style. Gabriel Prokofiev debuts concerto 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z The ensemble has built a reputation on nurturing new works on the scale of concertos and symphonies; 65 of those were led by Langrée during his directorship. Louis Langrée Wraps Up a Quietly Transformative Era of Conducting 2023-07-14T04:00:00Z Over the weekend, however, the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra made concertos the main attraction. Concertos take the lead at L.A. Phil, L.A. Chamber Orchestra 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z There was a time, during darker days of the pandemic, when orchestral concerts departed from their usual formats — worn-down cookie cutters of a curtain-raiser, concerto and symphony — and turned into something more unpredictable, and open-minded. Review: The Philharmonic’s Artist in Residence Wears Two Hats 2023-04-16T04:00:00Z “With the second movement of that concerto, he invented the soul of the clarinet.” Martin Frost Explores the Soul of the Clarinet 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z When Bach made concertos out of pieces by Vivaldi, he bettered Vivaldi, and the pieces became Bach. 'Blurred Lines' verdict would rock Amadeus and other great composers 2015-03-14T04:00:00Z The untethered harmonic language, along with the developmental approach to form, could easily make the concerto seem long-winded. Review: Max Reger, an Orphan-Composer Adopted for a Night 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z Dale Clevenger — the Chicago Symphony Orchestra horn master for whom this was written, and who died last month — once told an interviewer that he had requested an “audience-friendly” concerto from Williams. John Williams in the Concert Hall: An Introduction 2022-02-08T05:00:00Z When played together, they resemble the last two-thirds of an imaginary violin concerto. Itzhak Perlman pleases his many fans at Disney Hall with pieces by Tchaikovsky and Mozart 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z Alert yet dreamy, freely bending the tempo throughout, Ms. Uchida was most fascinating in the way she shifted her approach between the concertos. Review: Cleveland Orchestra Plays Mozart, and to Its Strengths 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z The thoughtful pianist Daniil Trifonov explores the music of Russia’s so-called “silver age” of the early 20th century on a fascinating album that offers various solo works and concertos by Scriabin, Prokofiev and Stravinsky. The 25 Best Classical Music Tracks of 2020 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z The title of Mr. Gaines’s “Sum Stravinsky,” choreographed to that composer’s “Dumbarton Oaks” concerto, is a pun: “sum” for “some” but also “sum” for “addition.” Dance Review: Pacific Northwest Ballet in Seattle, Mark Morris Premiere 2012-11-05T22:54:53Z Anthony Tommasini It is a long-honored practice for a pianist playing a concerto with an orchestra to conduct the piece from the keyboard. The Week Ahead: Nov. 20 ? 26 2011-11-18T22:01:22Z Liszt’s piano concerto, the work of an established showman who wanted to be taken seriously as a composer, combines virtuosic glitter with transparently textured chamber music. Review: The Philadelphia Orchestra Returns, With Force 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z Rachmaninov’s second and third piano concertos are heard all the time, but there’s a great journey between the first and fourth. Rach Fest: two nights, four concertos, four pianists 2012-12-28T21:53:25Z He never tires of the Beethoven violin concerto, on the other hand, and said he learned something from each performance. The Violinist Augustin Hadelich Flourishes in New York 2010-04-15T22:18:00Z It was not the best setup piece for the concerto. Review: Max Reger, an Orphan-Composer Adopted for a Night 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z I recently attempted to tackle these issues myself in my Duet for Piano and Orchestra, a sort of concerto compressed into 12 minutes. Composing for the piano in black and white 2010-06-03T22:05:00Z As for the 4th concerto, she loves it so much that — counter to what one might expect — she has never played it in public. Martha Argerich is a legend of the classical music world. But she doesn’t act like one. 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z It features that composer’s last symphony and his last piano concerto, and tacks on a Mendelssohn overture. 5 Classical Music Concerts to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z He hadn’t played the Rachmaninoff concerto since 2019, and had never worked with the Philharmonic; for more pressure, this was going to be his orchestral debut at Carnegie. Review: Upended by Global Conflict, the Vienna Philharmonic Plays On 2022-02-27T05:00:00Z The Mozart concerto was rewarding from start to finish. Music Review: A Workout for Winds and Brasses 2011-08-17T22:22:48Z He achieved international recognition with a recording of the two Chopin piano concertos at age 12 in the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory. Evgeny Kissin Will Indulge His Love of Yiddish Poetry at Carnegie Hall 2015-12-13T05:00:00Z David Lang -- whose new percussion concerto, “man made,” will open the Los Angeles Philharmonic season at Walt Disney Concert Hall in October -- is Carlsbad’s featured composer. Music Walk in Carlsbad and a 'Parade' at the Hammer 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z A program of Bach violin concertos, 8 p.m. Ingrid Matthews says farewell to Seattle Baroque Orchestra 2012-10-04T20:04:07Z “Brian gave me my first record player,” he says, “and my first classical album, which was the Sibelius violin concerto.” The Importance of Being Astonished 2011-01-09T02:00:58Z And his signature tone resulted in definitive renditions of war horses of the concerto repertory. Itzhak Perlman, Violin Legend, Still Proves the Critics Wrong 2020-08-26T04:00:00Z There were three encores: Mr. Anderszewski played Bartok’s Three Hungarian Folksongs after the concerto in the first half of the program. Music Review: Paavo Jarvi Brings Schumann to Alice Tully Hall 2010-08-03T22:52:00Z Mr. Siirala, a Viennese classical specialist, brought the D minor concerto. The Week Ahead: Aug. 8 ? 14 2010-08-04T19:06:00Z He also played the prominent piano part in a movement from a chamber concerto, a work in progress by Liam Robinson, the fourth Red Light composer-director. Music Review: Green Light for Experimentalism: Tweaking Conventions and Bending Rules 2010-09-21T21:26:00Z True, the "video ballet", a piano concerto that nominally tells the creation myth with abstract images by Adès's partner Tal Rosner, is earthier and less pointedly ironic than earlier scores. London Sinfonietta/Ad?s ? review 2011-02-17T17:08:05Z This week, at the New York Philharmonic, Susanna Malkki — another champion of Ms. Chin’s work — will present the New York premiere of “Su,” a concerto for sheng, an ancient Chinese mouth organ. The Philharmonic Takes on a Composer of Puzzles and Turns 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z The Los Angeles Philharmonic commissioned his “Gaia,” a symphonic tone poem that doubles as a concerto for Ms. Spalding and suggests a classical tradition deftly redrawn in Mr. Shorter’s hand. Wayne Shorter, Intrepid Saxophonist and Composer, Dies at 89 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z With the Bach, hearing the piano four-hands arrangement on the same program as the original revealed an unsurprising diminishment of concerto character and tonal color and a surprising retention of compositional integrity. Review: Mark Morris Conducts at Tanglewood, and Offers a Debut 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z Typical of Baroque concertos, it is in several short movements, but Penderecki turns small forms into large. Concertos take the lead at L.A. Phil, L.A. Chamber Orchestra 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z Navy Band will premiere his concerto “Vital Sines.” Perspective | 21 for ’21: Composers and performers who sound like tomorrow 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z The wildly unpredictable Gergiev was more engaged than in recent memory, presiding over a magnificently shaped version of Bruckner’s Sixth Symphony, an unusual and memorable pairing with the Tchaikovsky concerto. Enescu, an Underplayed Composer, Is Still a Star in Romania 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z Fortunately for him, Mozart’s concerto places the burden on the right hand, which is tasked with runs and rhythmic complexity while the left often sets the mood with chords placed neatly on the beat. Review: Lang Lang, Classical Music’s Superstar, Returns Quietly 2018-07-08T04:00:00Z He's back for a 90th birthday bow, with a concert Jan. 18 leading the Colburn Orchestra in Tchaikovsky's violin concerto and Holst's "The Planets" at Walt Disney Concert Hall. Sir Neville Marriner conducts his 90th birthday tour with grace, humor 2015-01-10T05:00:00Z From the first searching phrases of the solo violin theme at the start of this Neo-Classical concerto, it was clear that we were hearing an artist in command of what she was doing. Music Review: Young Concert Artists Gala at Alice Tully Hall 2013-05-17T21:18:15Z A piano concerto isn’t always thrilling to watch, but these were. Caroline Shaw piano concerto premiere turns classical tradition on its head 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z Poulenc, who completed this organ concerto in 1938, was inspired by the death of a musical colleague and friend; the score led him to attain a new maturity. Dance Review: Underworld Notes, in the Homeric Sense 2014-02-02T22:31:20Z Brahms wrote two piano concertos, which offer riches enough for most pianists. Prom 37: BBCPhil/Lazic/Sinaisky - review 2011-08-12T10:37:25Z To the sections of Ravel’s piano concerto that sound like Gershwin, Robbins responds with the Broadway fun of which he was a master. Dance Review: City Ballet Focuses on Robbins at Koch Theater - Review 2012-01-22T23:08:16Z The concerto’s single movement encompasses five contrasting sections and incorporates bravura solo passages that feature rapid passagework and double stops, which Mr. Feeney played with flair. Music Review: Dusting Off the Real Dragonetti Concerto 2010-10-05T21:15:00Z All three do share a certain grandeur, which was certainly illuminated in an exemplary performance of the concerto by the cellist Alisa Weilerstein. Music Review: Philharmonic?s ?Modern Beethoven? at Avery Fisher Hall 2012-03-10T00:43:09Z Still, the violinist made the concerto about nothing more than virtuosity, leaving Grazinyte-Tyla mainly to accommodate showmanship rather than investigate the quirky soundscape that underlies the concerto. Conductor Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla lights up the San Diego Symphony with sparkling sonics 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z The concerto was written for the concertmasters of all three orchestras to play. For Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, the welcome return of some familiar faces 2018-03-19T04:00:00Z After the interval, pianist Steven Osborne continued his cycle of Beethoven concertos with a radiant account of The Emperor. BBCSSO/Manze – review 2013-05-03T13:16:09Z Everything preceding the concerto underscored the fine Juilliard ensemble’s sheer versatility. Music Review: New Juilliard Ensemble in 2 Premieres - Review 2011-09-25T21:55:41Z The second piano concerto, while just as tightly constructed as the 9th, is an entirely different animal, Elts believes. Guest conductor Olari Elts to lead SSO Shostakovich program 2014-01-24T01:35:08Z Mr. Nelsons, the music director of the Boston Symphony, will conduct 12 programs, including symphonies by Shostakovich, Tchaikovsky and Berlioz; Poulenc’s “Gloria” with Nicole Cabell; and the Beethoven piano concerto cycle with Mr. Lewis. Violin Stars Will Celebrate Isaac Stern at Tanglewood 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z And while the three movements of the concerto offer the sisters ample space to showcase their facility with both intricately interlocking figures and bombastic storms of sound, it didn’t afford listeners the same. With the NSO, French piano duo Katia and Marielle Labèque brew up a storm (and some stress) 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z Jack Liebeck was the soloist in the Violin Concerto No 1, bringing idiomatic touches to a work that transplants folk fiddle gestures into the framework of a grand romantic concerto. RPO/Brabbins – review 2013-03-13T17:42:25Z It is essentially a concerto for two horns, and in my mind's eye they became the missing dancers, intertwining with clumsy chemistry. BBCSSO/Baker – review 2013-03-11T17:48:28Z Lengthy, complex, and assertive, the new concerto demands almost superhuman agility and stamina of the soloist for whom it was written, and Ehnes rose to the challenge. Review: New concerto was written for powerhouse violinist — and he delivered 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z There were two beloved Mozart concertos — the Clarinet Concerto in A major and Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor. A surprising L.A. Chamber Orchestra concert features two Wolfgangs' music — and a rare clarinet 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z Or, better yet, he said, “The film is a concerto soloist that I’m working with.” ‘The Tree of Life’ Unfurls, With a Live Orchestra and Choir 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z The orchestra, which played beautifully for Mr. Barrett, outdid itself in the concerto. Music Review: Mitsuko Uchida Plays Mozart at Caramoor 2010-06-27T21:49:00Z Ravi Shankar’s first concerto for sitar and Western orchestra, from 1971, is a tame, lush, quite pretty piece. Review: A Concerto in Which East Meets West, and Peace Reigns 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z In the concertos Mr. Fisk will be joined by the Harlem String Quartet. Critic?s Notebook: Marathon at 92nd St. Y to Wrap Up Guitar Festival 2012-01-26T23:38:46Z Almost every season at the New York Philharmonic, gifted artists in their 20s, sometimes even younger, are soloists in concertos. Music Review: The Pianist Paul Lewis Makes His Philharmonic Debut 2014-04-11T21:43:04Z The program will also include the German premiere — and only the second performance anywhere — of Mr. Elfman’s first violin concerto, written for Sandy Cameron. Around the World With Music 2017-07-24T04:00:00Z Last month, he played his own piano concerto with the Kansas City Symphony. Fleeting Fingers and Red-Eye Flights: A Pianist Is a Study in Stamina 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z His music, from the Oscar-winning scores for the “Lord of the Rings” films to his recent concertos for piano and cello, favors long melodic lines and unmessy orchestration. Before he won Oscars for his music, composer Howard Shore helped kick off SNL 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z Even in the first movement of “Concerto Barocco,” you’re not really “seeing” Bach’s double violin concerto: The difference between the solo violins and the ballerinas following them is rhythmically large. City Ballet’s ‘Robbins 100’: Making Music Theatrical 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z He was within his historic rights since that is the instrument, which resembles a modern A clarinet with an extension and slightly curved mouthpiece, for which Mozart composed his concerto. Sun shines on Hollywood Bowl guest conductor Ludovic Morlot 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z The program included technical challenges like the Etudes, musical challenges like Poland’s dances — mazurkas and polonaises — as well as concertos with an orchestra. Top piano event winner says pandemic helped him concentrate 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z Dudamel revealed not normally noticed connections between this showpiece and the concerto. L.A. Philharmonic breathes fire into Saariaho world premiere 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z I'd have too many crotchets in a bar and things like that, but still wrote symphonies and concertos. Mark-Anthony Turnage: A life in music 2011-01-22T07:59:00Z So, with respect and plucky daring, Labadie fashioned a concerto from three Bach movements that feature a solo violin: two sinfonias sandwiching an adagio from the “Easter Oratorio.” Two New York Orchestras Return With Acts of Renewal 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z Whether he is thundering his way through Paderewski, or charming us with rarely performed Melcer concertos or British transcriptions of Bach, his range seems limitless. Brahms: Piano Sonata No 3; Handel Variations – review 2013-01-13T00:05:34Z Almost a piano concerto in miniature, the work provided ample opportunity for the pianist Alessio Bax to show off his flawless technique. Music Review: Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center at Tully - Review 2011-10-19T22:40:11Z The result was a sort-of concerto, with an industrious first movement, a mournful slow one and a fleet finale, made to order for the splendid violinist Benjamin Bowman, who played beautifully. Two New York Orchestras Return With Acts of Renewal 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z Vivid yet unexaggerated, just like in the Schumann concerto, the playing had the intimate warmth that the orchestra also brought to Haydn’s “Oxford” Symphony in the same space a few weeks ago. Review: Schumann at the Philharmonic. Robert, Too. 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z But Jerome Robbins found himself in that position in 1995 when he began creating “Brandenburg,” set to a complete concerto by Bach and movements from three others. Review: Jerome Robbins Delivers the Hit of City Ballet’s Season 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z The first program I heard was one of three that intriguingly paired the piano concertos of Beethoven with works by Ralph Vaughan Williams. A Road Trip to Sample America’s Many, Many Music Festivals 2022-08-05T04:00:00Z He continued upending expectations in the two concertos. Music Review: Christian Tetzlaff With the Met Orchestra at Carnegie Hall 2012-05-21T22:18:57Z In Telemann’s Concerto in D for trumpets, oboes and strings, which opened the concert, the orchestra played with enthusiasm in the majestic outer movements and, in the concerto’s quiet Largo, true elegance. Music Review: Eccles’s ‘Judgment of Paris,’ at Washington Square Festival 2013-07-10T19:59:16Z But the concerto also features extensive passages played on the G string, where she dug for a tougher, more textured quality. New York Philharmonic With Guest Violinist and Conductor 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z For the second half, a recent percussion concerto by an established French composer set the stage for Haydn's Symphony No. 88. Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra explores Mozart by way of Sacred Harp, Haydn by way of flamenco 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z Mr. Lewis’s performance highlighted the classical elements of this monumental 50-minute concerto. Music Review: The Pianist Paul Lewis Makes His Philharmonic Debut 2014-04-11T21:43:04Z The violinist Leonidas Kavakos will join him, playing Sibelius violin concertos on Jan. 28 and 29. Performance Guide 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z The fourth of Beethoven’s five piano concertos is the only one that begins with the soloist playing alone. Bronfman Braces for the Five Piano Concertos 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z I wish I could say the same for the rest of the concerto. Review: Lang Lang, Classical Music’s Superstar, Returns Quietly 2018-07-08T04:00:00Z After "The Exterminating Angel," Adès has another big piece: He's been commissioned to write a piano concerto for Kirill Gerstein and the Boston Symphony. Composer Thomas Adès devotes his downtime in L.A. to ... rehearsing 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z When I heard the concerto “Must the Devil Have All the Good Tunes?,” in its New York premiere by the Los Angeles Philharmonic at David Geffen Hall in November, I felt both thrilled and jostled. Music, Theater and More to Experience at Home This Weekend 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z For all the musical complexities of this piece, Bartok intended it to be an exuberant concerto in the grand tradition. Music Review: Lang Lang?s Bartok With the New York Philharmonic - Review 2012-01-19T23:29:36Z The standard view of Dvorak’s piano music, and especially his concerto, is that it is poorly written because he wasn’t a virtuoso himself. ‘The Great Czech Piano Cycle’ Arrives at Carnegie Hall 2023-01-29T05:00:00Z The performance of Mr. Adès’s formidable concerto, which ended the program, drew a deserved ovation. Music Review: Britten Sinfonia Makes American Debut at Alice Tully Hall 2012-02-23T23:53:29Z Cadenzas are unaccompanied flights in a concerto that play on its themes and show off a virtuoso’s mettle. H?l?ne Grimaud and Claudio Abbado Part Ways 2011-10-30T22:37:26Z “A violin concerto,” he said—which didn’t seem particularly laughable—and then, after a pause: “And the soundtrack to Fifty Shades Darker.” Danny Elfman on How 'Nightmare Before Christmas' Endured 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z This was a musical lineup that required a strong lead, with not only the Imeri premiere and the concerto but also the Henri Dutilleux Symphony No. 1, which launched the evening. Pianist Simon Trpceski, conductor Susanna M?lkki light up SSO 2012-04-20T18:24:04Z But at the heart of the concert was a pair of premieres, both BBC commissions, and both concertos of a kind. BBCSO/David Robertson ? review 2010-10-24T21:46:00Z The concerto was written for the violinist Joseph Joachim late in Schumann’s creative life — in 1853, shortly before the composer was committed to an asylum. Midori fails to sell little-known Schumann to NSO audience The concerto was jointly commissioned by the symphony orchestras of Toronto, Seattle, Dallas, and Melbourne; its world premiere was given earlier this month in Toronto. Review: New concerto was written for powerhouse violinist — and he delivered 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z Both were flute concertos, written for the dazzling principal flautist of the Berlin Philharmonic, Emmanuel Pahud, who played them here too. Prom 18: BBCNOW/Fischer ? review 2011-07-29T11:12:16Z Nobody writes concerti grossi any more, which is a pity, as there is much vitality to the baroque form perfected by Handel, Corelli and Bach, whose Brandenburg Suites are concerti grossi in all but name. Northern Sinfonia/Zehetmair 2010-06-07T21:20:00Z Typically, though, they are employed with great restraint; just as predictably, the work is not a conventional concerto in any respect. Feldman: Violin and Orchestra – review 2013-05-16T21:14:01Z Still, this will be first time for them to perform the Ravel concertos together. Jean-Yves Thibaudet joins Symphony, Morlot for Ravel 2013-09-15T14:01:09Z He reworked Vivaldi's violin concertos for keyboard and orchestra; he also recast his own music to suit pragmatic ends, so what was once a lute suite ended up the next week rewritten for solo cello. Bach in business 2010-07-29T20:45:00Z Each of the concertos in the Italian composer’s beloved cycle is prefaced by a sonnet that likewise addresses seasonal associations. The magic lute: Baroque instrument gets electric update for world premiere 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z “Anahit” is a violin concerto in a single, uninterrupted movement: a brief violin solo is flanked by two large sections combining that instrument and the full ensemble. Classical Music This Week: The New Season, Scelsi and Anna Netrebko’s Birthday 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z His own compositions, however, stand closer to the world of jazz and pop, so that his concerto was an appropriate vehicle for former principal cellist Joshua Roman, who has been carving out a crossover career. Morlot debuts with charisma, substance 2011-09-18T18:59:45Z The Beethoven concerto, at 45 minutes the most substantial work, sat alone before intermission; after the pause came Chen Yi’s brief but meaty and varied “Duo Ye” for chamber orchestra, then Stravinsky’s 25-minute “Pulcinella” Suite. Review: On Thanksgiving, Gratitude for a Dependable Violin 2021-11-25T05:00:00Z Pintscher also conducted the UK premiere of his own Chute d'Etoiles, a dense concerto for two trumpets inspired by the work of the German sculptor Anselm Kiefer and by The Rite of Spring itself. BBCSSO/Pintscher – review 2013-05-20T11:34:36Z He was the first real, acoustic concerto soloist in the new space, and he was a gallant partner; the piano, properly, sounded somewhere both inside and in front of the orchestra. The Philharmonic Tests Its New Home With the Classics 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z He brought this sense of rediscovery to this new concerto, and particularly to the opening of the final movement. Music: The Making of a Maestro Moment 2011-02-16T12:30:06Z Following the Seventh Symphony fragment, composer/pianist/arranger Joachim Horsley took the stage to do his own version of the second movement, as a sort of piano concerto a la cubana. Review | Ben Folds’s second Kennedy Center concert features . . . everything 2018-07-01T04:00:00Z So the heart sank at the amount of ironmongery on the platform before the UK premiere of the violin concerto by the Austrian composer Thomas Larcher. BBCSO/Yamada ? review 2011-03-09T19:15:01Z That same night, Christian Tetzlaff had set off like a rocket in Brahms's violin concerto. The Turn of the Screw; BBC Proms 32, 35, 36 ? review 2011-08-13T23:06:02Z True, keeping the soloist from monopolizing the spotlight is an unusual, almost nihilistic approach to concerto writing. Music Review: When Soloists Don?t Necessarily Star 2011-04-15T23:01:47Z The concerto begins with the sweet otherness of chant, which frequents the concerto. The global implications for a Scottish piano concerto based on the Rosary 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z Last summer, Daniel Barenboim played both of Liszt's piano concertos in a single concert at the Festival Hall, with Pierre Boulez conducting. LPO/Alsop/Hough ? review 2012-02-09T18:00:01Z Birtwistle's concerto nails one of the conventions of the genre with absolute assurance: Tetzlaff's violin line was always audible against the orchestra. Birtwistle premiere - review 2011-03-06T17:00:13Z I first encountered him in March, with the ensemble Jupiter, when he was suave in the fireworks of a Vivaldi concerto’s finale. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z The evening was devoted to the festival’s namesake, with performances of an overture, a popular piano concerto, some arias for tenor and the “Prague” Symphony. Critic’s Notebook: Mostly Mozart Opens With Louis Langrée and Lawrence Brownlee 2012-08-01T21:47:28Z The refreshing part was allowing Auerbach to enter into a direct dialogue with Mozart by writing the cadenzas for one of his concertos. Review: At the NSO, a composer in delightful dialogue with Mozart Big vibrato, big gestures – he's an old-fashioned soloist of sorts, and turned one of the scariest concertos in the business into a work of expressive, emotive necessity. The New Century – review 2012-06-01T16:11:15Z Lastly, Seattle Symphony principal violist Susan Gulkis Assadi took the solo role and led the orchestra without conductor in Mozart's Viola Concerto in A Major, more commonly heard as a clarinet concerto. Seattle Symphony goes for Baroque in 'Like Father, Like Son' program 2012-03-10T20:40:13Z Owen Gunnell and Oliver Cox aim to avoid the pitfalls of the percussion concerto. Taking the knocks: the chequered history of the percussion concerto 2010-10-01T14:47:00Z Only after his manuscripts were rediscovered did he earn posthumous fame for “The Four Seasons” and other concertos. Vivaldi opera gets premiere in Ferrara nearly 300 years late 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z I memorised a full piano concerto with 11,000 notes just by listening, and played it with orchestras on the South Bank in London and in the Mainly Mozart Festival in San Diego, California. Meet the super humans 2020-01-26T05:00:00Z When Ax plays a concerto, it’s a collaborative event with the orchestra and conductor, not merely a star turn at the keyboard. At Seattle Symphony, masterful and moving collaborations 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z What surrounded the concertos made an interesting difference. Concertos take the lead at L.A. Phil, L.A. Chamber Orchestra 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z “Harmonielehre” is a hard act to follow, and Denk and a smaller ensemble had their work cut out for them in the Beethoven concerto. Composer John Adams does double duty at Strathmore with BSO 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z On Wednesday, the Philharmonic did well by the concerto’s debt to Charles Mingus in passages of gravelly extended technique and others of deceptively breezy swing — and, as with Mingus, at the intersection of the two. Review: At the Philharmonic, Contemporary Is King for a Week 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z Then there was “Two x Four,” a project about the relationship between teacher and student, with new double concertos by Anna Clyne and David Ludwig. 22 Musicals, Plays, Concerts, Dances and Festivals You Can’t Miss This Spring 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z Bernstein’s violin concerto also benefited from a finely calibrated color palette, testament to both the composer’s skill and Mr. Gilbert’s attentive conducting. Music Review: New York Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall 2013-04-18T21:42:45Z The grandeur and power of this concerto were fully realized, yet Bronfman also drew back for lyrical, sensitive playing: delicate, quicksilver arpeggios, as well as keyboard thunder and lightning. Review: Pianist Yefim Bronfman and Seattle Symphony earn thunderous applause 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z On Wednesday, they perform the first and fifth concertos. For This Musician, the Time Has Come 2015-02-21T05:00:00Z This “Symposium” explores several of the finest levels of civilization — philosophical discussion about love, the beauties of a violin concerto, the human variety of classical dancing. The Best Dance of 2016 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z The decision was pragmatic, in part; the concerto exists in a version for piano quintet, which means it can easily been performed in smaller theaters on tour. Does Mozart Defy the Limits of Dance? Mark Morris Begs to Differ. 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z Unlike Brahms' famous double concerto, the violin and cello in Horner's piece don't challenge the orchestra or, for that matter, each other in a combative dialogue. Bowl concert plays as an elegy to James Horner, and an ode to composers of movie music 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z Robert Langevin, the Philharmonic’s principal flutist, was a deft if unexciting soloist in the flute concerto. Colliding Concerts Deliver a Surfeit of Mozart 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z But the new piece, closer in form to a classical concerto for piano and orchestra, appealed to Gershwin's desire to increase his skills. He's got rhythm: Jean-Yves Thibaudet plays Gershwin in Seattle 2011-04-15T00:31:40Z To argue that it represented a departure for Argerich would be foolish, but given her tendency to limit herself to concertos for her UK appearances, there was a sense of novelty in the air throughout. Argerich/Goerner ? review 2011-08-16T18:30:01Z How can this exhilarating concerto not be played all the time? America’s Quintessential Maverick Composer, at 100 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z On this thoughtfully conceived program, the Andriessen piece led to the Stravinsky concerto. A Rare Side-by-Side of a Thrilling Stravinsky 2018-10-07T04:00:00Z A measure for any clarinetist is the great Mozart concerto, one of the composer’s last works. Stanley Drucker, Ageless Clarinetist of the N.Y. Philharmonic, Dies at 93 2022-12-20T05:00:00Z Set to Thomas Adès’s violin concerto “Concentric Paths,” this will be the first original work Mr. McGregor has created for an American company, and will introduce many local dance fans to his visceral, kinetic style. The Week Ahead: May 9 ? 15 2010-05-06T18:46:00Z But the aggressively modernist First Concerto is seldom heard; and the Second, an exuberant, wildly imaginative piece, might be a repertory staple were it not one of the most technically demanding concertos ever written. Music Review: Budapest Festival Orchestra at Carnegie Hall - Review 2011-10-30T22:45:27Z But his new concerto makes another leap by turning the spotlight on the theorbo as the protagonist, here accompanied by a chamber orchestra of strings and harpsichord. The magic lute: Baroque instrument gets electric update for world premiere 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z At 11, he made his London debut with a Giornovichi concerto between the first two parts of Handel’s “Messiah.” The Black Violinist Who Inspired Beethoven 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z The Philharmonic said that with Mr. Williamson’s departure, it would postpone its plans to play and record Carl Nielsen’s clarinet concerto as part of its “Nielsen Project.” ArtsBeat: Philharmonic Clarinetist to Return to Chicago Symphony 2014-02-21T22:27:39Z Birtwistle describes the concerto as a "dialogue" between the protagonists, with the orchestra as a Greek chorus made up of individual voices. Birtwistle premiere - review 2011-03-06T17:00:13Z This was an elegant account of the concerto, with soloist Steven Osborne happy to share the spotlight with the orchestra. SCO/Kamu 2010-03-22T22:45:00Z For the concerto version, Smith adapted her singing into more traditional lines for winds and brasses. Gabriella Smith’s Music Marvels at Nature With Grooving Joy 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z Mostly he demonstrated his own concertos, along with dashings of Liszt, Tchaikovsky and Beethoven. Daniil Trifonov, New to Rachmaninoff, but a Bold and Youthful Echo 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z Lang Lang’s performance of two of Mozart’s piano concertos with Alan Gilbert and the New York Philharmonic on Tuesday started sourly, with playing that justified criticism of his outsize celebrity and obscured his considerable gifts. Lang Lang Shares the Spotlight With the Philharmonic 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z Perhaps he will take greater risks when he plays the Beethoven and Dvorak concertos with the Philharmonic later in the season. Music Review: Frank Peter Zimmermann, Alan Gilbert and Enrico Pace - Review 2011-10-13T22:20:12Z Their account of the concerto is lively and crisply virtuosic, but the performances of the other two, much later works on this disc are the more significant. Lutos?awski: Concerto for Orchestra; Symphony No 3; Chain 3 2010-10-14T22:30:00Z He will perform three Beethoven concerti, as well as piano recitals featuring a variety of repertoire. Kennedy Center plans Nordic arts festival in 2013 2012-03-06T16:52:10Z Hearing young musicians in concertos reveals further dimensions of their artistry. Music Review: Three Rising Stars Perform in Young Concert Artists Gala 2014-05-08T22:04:37Z The concerto is in the middle, then we go back to the Opus 3, which he wrote when he was 18, and which Tchaikovsky helped him publish. At 150, Rachmaninoff and His Music Are ‘Here to Stay’ 2023-04-03T04:00:00Z Though Mr. Starker eschewed romantic mannerisms, he did not stint Romantic works: he gave many well-received performances of the Dvorak concerto, the lush, haunting B minor staple of every concert cellist’s arsenal. Janos Starker, Master Cellist, Dies at 88 2013-04-30T15:05:06Z The season will conclude on May 20 with an evening of concertos by five composers including Mozart, Bach and Janacek. Looking Back on Haydn’s Legacy at the Chamber Music Society 2017-02-20T05:00:00Z Following the violin concerto premiered this year is the composer's Oboe Concerto, written for Nicholas Daniel and the Britten Sinfonia and premiered with the composer as conductor. Britten Sinfonia/MacMillan ? review 2010-10-25T21:00:00Z True enough he studied with the great French neoclassical composer Darius Milhaud, and began most days by listening to a Bach Brandenburg concerto. The best of Dave Brubeck – in video clips 2012-12-06T11:38:57Z Though the catalog of Beethoven concerto recordings is crowded, this new set is an exciting addition. Recordings: Mixing Urgency and Relaxation 2010-09-25T21:04:00Z He has developed a continuing relationship with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, playing and conducting Mozart concertos with them. This week's new live music 2013-02-16T06:00:00Z Previously you had banned yourself from writing more than one concerto for a given instrument. Unsuk Chin on the Violin Concerto She Swore She’d Never Write 2022-03-13T05:00:00Z In her essay, Lee performed a magnificent literary concerto, keeping tempo and hitting the right note with every heartstring pluck. Reflecting on a Lifetime of Reading and Other Letters to the Editor 2021-04-30T04:00:00Z In any case, Faust plays down the Joachim connection in the concerto by opting to play not his own familiar cadenza but the one by Busoni, which is constantly underpinned by the timpani. Brahms: Violin Concerto; String Sextet Op 36 ? review 2011-02-24T21:49:01Z “Dialogue: I and You,” the violin concerto, concludes with the soloist’s long, slowly depleting, sky-high A, which Duffek said might suggest “the soul having risen to heaven after a long earthly fight.” At 90, a Composer Is Still Sending Out Blasts 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z Vivaldi's flute concerto, Il Gran Mogol, was found in family papers at the National Archives of Scotland. Loft and found: have you got a Vivaldi lurking in your attic? 2010-11-22T12:36:00Z His Pulitzer Prize-winning concerto relied heavily on a complicated framework in which letters of the alphabet were assigned to musical pitches. Steven Stucky, Pulitzer Prize-winning composer of intricate musical wit, dies at 66 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z “If you know the cello concerto or the ‘Enigma’ Variations, it’s a language that you’ll recognize immediately. Uplifting music, deep themes: Seattle Symphony to perform Elgar’s ‘Dream of Gerontius’ 2016-11-27T05:00:00Z This is not a concerto in which to show off, and she didn't. Pinnock, Rana fill in admirably with L.A. Philharmonic 2014-12-21T05:00:00Z While introducing the works, he asked the audience to consider how well these concertos fare in such versions. Review: Parlor-Style Mozart From the Ariel Quartet 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z And a double concerto — for violin, piano and chamber orchestra — awaits orchestration. Daniil Trifonov, New to Rachmaninoff, but a Bold and Youthful Echo 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z Kopatchinskaja has made several more alarmingly innovative recordings of a remarkably broad range of standard and nonstandard repertory over the last seven years, including rapturously praised performances of concertos by Bartók, Prokofiev, Stravinsky and Ligeti. Patricia Kopatchinskaja shows her astonishing artistry on 'Take Two' and 'Chiaroscuro' 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z This gave the concerto a heroic sense of lift at the close. Waiting for a Masterpiece from Esa-Pekka Salonen 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z The remarkable thing about her playing in the F-major concerto was how full of dynamic and expressive nuance it was. Mitsuko Uchida's makes for eloquent Mozart with CSO 2011-01-28T18:48:33Z At 49, Alan Gilbert, who conducted the concertos, may have been a little older than the other participants. Review: Ligeti Forward Celebrates a Master Modern Composer 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z The range of works that survive today — 24 symphonies, a dozen concertos, the same number of violin sonatas, six published harpsichord sonatas, music for church services — suggests he was no compositional slouch. William Herschel Is Famous for Science. What About His Music? 2022-06-27T04:00:00Z That the piece, to a harpsichord concerto by Bohuslav Martinu, doesn’t quite go anywhere didn’t detract from its interest; it was the only work slightly to rattle sensibilities or expectations. Dance Review: San Francisco Ballet Finishes Its London Season 2012-09-25T22:04:19Z When I did my first commission for Carnegie, a 45-minute concerto, I made the mistake of visiting Carnegie Hall, and there’s manuscripts of, like, the real guys. Danny Elfman Brings Music From Tim Burton’s Films to Lincoln Center 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z Even though the Third is the most lucid and lightweight of Bartók's concertos in mood and texture, it still needed more bite, especially in the outer movements, which lacked character. BBCSO/Robertson 2010-08-23T11:10:00Z Folks would be astounded to learn of the editing and splicing that takes place in recorded symphonies and concertos. Picasso in 1932: Ingenious, Exhausting, Relentless 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z She made the concerto sound better than it actually is. Review: An Audition Season Begins at the Philharmonic 2022-02-13T05:00:00Z Memories of Orpheus lingered in my mind during the performance of the fourth concerto, the concert’s emotional and musical highlight. Contrasts Illuminate Beethoven in Philharmonic Festival 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z In the Prokofiev concerto, Bringuier didn't exactly let his soloist lead, but he did partner very closely, as if happily taking energy from her. Review: Pianist Yuja Wang sets off fireworks of her own at the Bowl 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z Rosen never despised virtuosity, and in his 1971 book The Classical Style encourages the listener to enjoy the sheer brilliance of Mozart's concertos. Charles Rosen obituary 2012-12-10T18:13:31Z The concerto is followed by Antiphon, the orchestral piece Widmann composed immediately after it, and which is as discursive and disrupted as its predecessor is sustained and concentrated. Jörg Widmann: Violin Concerto; Antiphon; Insel der Sirenen – review 2013-05-23T20:50:01Z Born in Paris in October 1835, he received his first piano lessons and wrote his first known composition at 3; he made his public debut at 10 in concertos by Mozart and Beethoven. Critic’s Notebook: A Bard Music Festival Weekend of Saint-Saëns 2012-08-13T21:46:15Z Mr. Shchedrin thinks of his new work as “a concerto for two heroes, male and female.” Music: The Making of a Maestro Moment 2011-02-16T12:30:06Z The range of technique required by this concerto is stunning. Seattle Symphony opens Masterworks series with impressive program 2010-09-24T21:29:00Z So the sushi concerto may look serene, but it really involved Mr. Gelb racing around with a camera, trying to maximize a few scant seconds before a customer gobbled up the movie’s beautiful scenery. Jiro Ono, a Sushi Legend, Is Captured in a New Documentary 2012-02-28T23:19:18Z The Prokofiev concerto itself is an angular blend of passion and reverie, infused with a wit that ranges from jaunty to thorny. 2013 SSO opener: Lang Lang, Morlot, Prokofiev are the stars 2013-09-13T14:01:09Z Vivaldi found himself penniless and sold concertos for a fraction of what they were worth to survive. Europa Galante's graceful time warp back to Vivaldi's final season 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z Roxburgh's work certainly puts all sections of the large orchestra, including a substantial percussion department, smartly through their paces, but without ever becoming the kind of showcase that the title "concerto for orchestra" usually implies. BBCSO/Andrew Davis 2010-10-11T22:01:00Z Mozart completed his concerto Jan. 5, 1791; he died Dec. 5. Herbert Blomstedt leads L.A. Phil's commanding Bruckner performance 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z The concerto calls for that often, but not always, and his interpretation, delivered as if with a sticky, heavy bow, rarely mined the contrasts of flowing melody and bouncing agility. Review: The New York Philharmonic Brings Back the Standards 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z I didn’t play much Brahms until I turned 40, when I suddenly thought, you know what, I really want to play the D minor concerto. ‘There’s Nothing Quite as Distressing as This Piece’ 2022-01-30T05:00:00Z Though Karol Szymanowski's orchestral music, especially his two violin concertos, is established in the repertory, his smaller-scale instrumental and vocal works are less well known, at least outside his native Poland. Music picks of the week 2010-04-30T23:21:00Z Here as in the later movements of the concerto, though still in bravura mode, he showed greater sensitivity, taste and imagination. Music Review: Mariinsky Orchestra, Valery Gergiev and Daniil Trifonov - Review 2011-10-13T20:20:50Z A lot of concertos pit the orchestra against the soloist, but I didn’t get the sense that is what you were aiming for here. Unsuk Chin on the Violin Concerto She Swore She’d Never Write 2022-03-13T05:00:00Z Seattle Baroque Orchestra will perform the world premiere of Aaron Grad’s “Strange Seasons,” a new concerto for electric theorbo and an ode to Puget Sound’s weather, Nov. 11 at Benaroya Hall. The magic lute: Baroque instrument gets electric update for world premiere 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z Pedja Muzijevic, on harpsichord, provided a crisp backbone for all the concertos and in the Fifth — an early premonition of a keyboard concerto — he contributed an exhilarating, wildly chromatic cadenza. Music Review: Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Plays Bach 2013-12-17T22:02:05Z Both concerto and divertimento were written in Mozart's teens, barely after the end of the Baroque era, a scant generation after the deaths of Handel and Bach. Guest conductor lends expert touch to SSO Mozart program 2012-05-04T17:02:04Z Bowers describes a concerto as a conversation between a soloist and an ensemble. ‘The 2021 Oscar Nominated Short Films’ Review: Major Issues in Brief 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z After intermission, they offered some Béla Bartók, Manuel de Falla and Heitor Villa-Lobos arrangements and the only music on the program originally written for mandolin, a concerto by Nikolai Budashkin. Avi Avital’s ‘Between Worlds’ lays a bridge for folk and classical works 2016-03-07T05:00:00Z The violin concerto, though, was compact and dazzling. RSNO/Den?ve ? review 2011-02-01T18:05:46Z And, like nearly every concerto throughout history, it is in three movements, opening with the statement of a theme from both the piano and the orchestra. Adès and Adams: Big Composers With Simultaneous Big Premieres 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z The concerto was then interesting enough to keep that attention. Gustavo Dudamel taps into the power of sound at the Hollywood Bowl 2017-08-23T04:00:00Z Here’s his second piano concerto, from 1818, a delightful piece dominated by the sprightly opening Allegro but also possessing an eloquent slow movement and a witty finale. Classical Music This Week: Harry Partch and Mozart’s Son 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z The Bruch concerto, with its improvisatory solos and plentiful rubato, certainly poses challenges. Music Review: Ryu Goto and Orpheus in Spirited Mood at Carnegie Hall 2010-05-05T22:12:00Z Mr. Norgard’s concerto, played with striking confidence by Eric Bartlett, posits four relationships between the soloist and a chamber ensemble in its four movements: “Monologue,” “Together,” “Multiplicity” and “Infinity.” Review: The New York Philharmonic Highlights Nordic Works 2015-03-08T05:00:00Z Vieuxtemps' 19th century violin concertos were once the rage among the legendary virtuosos of yore. Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla shows why she's moving up in latest L.A. Phil show at Disney Hall 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z Alan Gilbert is in the midst of an exciting project with the New York Philharmonic to perform and record Carl Nielsen’s complete symphonies and concertos. The Best Classical Music Recordings of 2012 2012-12-20T17:59:14Z Vivaldi hadn’t meant the trip from his home in Venice to Vienna in 1740 to be his farewell to concertos, let alone his life. Europa Galante's graceful time warp back to Vivaldi's final season 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z It’s no coincidence that Mills named the last movement of their concerto together “You Can Go Home Again,” a nod to the musicians of Georgia who inspired him decades ago. Mike Mills’ classical rock: Life after R.E.M. includes a new violin concerto bringing orchestra crowds to their feet 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z Mr. Fulmer’s concerto, in 10 continuous movements packed into an eventful 18 minutes, was ruthlessly atonal and treacherously difficult. Music Review: New Juilliard Ensemble Plays Fulmer and Kapica 2010-04-30T20:24:00Z Mr. Gruber’s piano concerto, which has its German premiere with the Berlin Philharmonic on March 16, oozes with Weill’s aesthetic: intricate, taut orchestration coexisting with a winking, yet sincere, undercurrent of jazz rhythms and riffs. Kurt Weill: How Germany Finally Unearthed a National Treasure 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z How does what you admire in his playing translate into the concerto? Unsuk Chin on the Violin Concerto She Swore She’d Never Write 2022-03-13T05:00:00Z The piece is dominated by the florid, fancy piano part: Whole stretches seem like a virtuosic piano concerto, with the violin supplying the equivalent of solo lines or ostinato figures in the orchestra. Review: Strangers and Familiar Friends of Classical Music 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z When I asked if I could play a passage of his cello concerto, he said: "Of course, but I don't hear so well." Elliott Carter remembered: 'Music seemed to erupt from his very being' 2012-11-06T18:41:42Z Joachim’s concerto, about 50 minutes long, isn’t as structurally cohesive as the Brahms and Bruch concertos. Music Review: Christian Tetzlaff Joins Orpheus at Carnegie Hall 2014-03-31T21:19:15Z The Beethoven concerto is one of the most important pieces from the Classical period. Globe-trotting guest conductor Gilbert Varga lands in Seattle for first time 2010-04-14T22:04:00Z And Paul Lewis will play the five Beethoven piano concertos. Violin Stars Will Celebrate Isaac Stern at Tanglewood 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z Yet, if you push this anguished quality too far, it can throw off the character of the concerto. Louis Langrée and Richard Goode Featured at Mostly Mozart 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z On Wednesday, he played the Rachmaninoff concerto, one of the most difficult and popular in the repertoire, with clean, confident technique; silkily smooth tone; and rare relish in passages of sprightly humor. Review: Yunchan Lim, Teenage Piano Star, Arrives in New York 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z The Perle concerto, an engaging, sprightly work full of cat-and-mouse dialogues between the piano and the ensemble, built on the impressions created in the Elgar. | Bard College Conservatory Orchestra: Leon Botstein Brings Bard and Dawn Upshaw to Lincoln Center 2010-04-11T21:22:00Z Anderson finds a stylistic sweet spot in this piece, which simultaneously hints at hoedowns, Vivaldi concertos, Bach toccatas and bebop. Not Bach or Beethoven, but Leroy Anderson Is the Composer for Now 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z In the slow movement, moreover, Mozart offers unmeasured silences that produce a momentary sensation of being lost in space, which is hardly usual in a Classical period concerto. A symphony for Los Angeles, just one otherworldly delight at L.A. Phil's Mozart and Pärt festival 2016-05-28T04:00:00Z Bolcom’s second piano concerto, at a running time of 24 minutes, reflects that balance while synthesizing various musical traditions. Decades Later, a Composer Revisits the Piano Concerto 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z She is planning to write him an ambitious new piece she described as “a big, long solo based on the concerto.” A Pianist Adapts to Life With Parkinson’s Disease 2023-08-07T04:00:00Z Throughout the concerto Ms. Wang played with a touch that was light yet clear. Music Review: Israel Philharmonic Orchestra at Carnegie Hall 2012-10-27T02:30:08Z A New York native, Ms. Adolphe, 28, takes an unconventional approach to the concerto genre in “Unearth, Release.” New York Philharmonic’s Next Leader Gives a Taste of Things to Come 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z More helpful was Ms. Auerbach’s explanation of the structure of the concerto, which unfolds in 13 interconnected sections, like fractured dreams tied together: an episodic but continuous arc lasting some 25 minutes. Review: The New York Philharmonic Plays a Piece Inspired by Night 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z In the first movement of the violin concerto, after a spare introduction, the violin soars with propulsive vigor over a rich orchestral fabric, with introverted passages alternating with fiery outbursts. Jennifer Higdon Basks In Her Music Pulitzer 2010-04-21T22:25:00Z Being a lover of the performing arts is about the thirst for the new play and concerto. With Different Singers, One Opera Classic Can Seem Like Two 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z At the red-carpet opening on Friday, the violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter, who is also on Lucerne’s board, played a concerto by Joseph Boulogne, a Black composer born in the 18th century. A European Music Festival’s Push for Diversity Stirs Debate 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z Instead, bookended by Bach’s two best-known violin concertos — in A minor and E — the concert featured two transcriptions by Mr. Dantone. Review: A Perfectly Acceptable Slice of Bach 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z No flashy concertos here: The orchestra is the star. The New Season of Classical Music: A ‘Fake News’ Opera and Sound Quilts 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z I say “Responses” is a piano concerto, but Mr. Birtwistle has so thoroughly rethought the genre that it escapes the name. Review: Boston Symphony Gives Harrison Birtwistle’s ‘Responses’ an American Premiere 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z The new piano concerto, too, manages to surprise even as it is not interested merely in shock value. Decades Later, a Composer Revisits the Piano Concerto 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z This hampered the performance of Ravel's G major piano concerto in particular, even with such a finely focused soloist as Imogen Cooper; much of its boulevardier wit and nightclub-band naughtiness went missing. Prom 4: Orchestra of the RAM & The Juilliard School – review 2012-07-17T10:22:17Z The orchestra, emboldened, winds up for the kill, but the piece ends abruptly, as if the lights went out before any victor in the concerto’s battle could be determined. Review: Nico Muhly’s Moody Concerto for Two Pianos 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z He did choose to publish the concerto, originally for flute and piano but easily transcribed for violin. A centennial tribute to 'The Divine Mr. Harrison' 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z The piece will be bookended by work by Pulitzer Prize winner Caroline Shaw and a new concerto for two pianos from Philip Glass, also a world premiere. Bryce Dessner talks about his 'double life' as a classical, rock musician 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z “Tchaikovsky’s concertos I find a lot of fun to play,” says Giltburg. Beat the winter blahs with 2 nights of Tchaikovsky, at SSO 2014-01-09T21:08:07Z Even in the Blues movement, the wonderfully long-lined spiritual heart of the concerto, the brass wails like banshees. The short and the long of the American conversation in Wynton Marsalis' Concerto in D at the Bowl 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z Mr. Husa created works in most of the standard concert-music forms apart from opera, including two symphonies, several concertos, four string quartets and three ballets. Karel Husa, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Composer, Dies at 95 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z In that concerto Bach gives the pianist the dual roles of soloist and accompanist. Music Review: Piotr Anderszewski’s Bach Recital at Carnegie Hall 2012-12-09T22:11:03Z The concerto seems an attempt to balance the advanced chromatic language of Wagner with Brahms’s feeling for classical structure. Review: Max Reger, an Orphan-Composer Adopted for a Night 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z He will instead first complete a cello concerto for Yo-Yo Ma scheduled for next season, and he will move the orchestral score to the season after. In a tumultuous world, conductor-composer Esa-Pekka Salonen is focusing more on the present 2016-02-14T05:00:00Z The contestants show the judges videos highlighting their charity work — beauty and misery to the tunes of melancholy piano concertos. Miss World is the biggest beauty pageant you’ve never heard of. What’s it doing in Washington? 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z The pauses between concertos didn’t help: Snippets of silent dancing attempted to fill in the space during transitions, but they were too faint and fleeting to keep the momentum going. Review: In ‘Six Brandenburg Concertos,’ Diluting Bach’s Dancing Spirit 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z Mr. Tan’s concerto was a potentially risky piece to program. Review: Death, Two Ways, at the New York Philharmonic 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z That the concerto came across as the strongest piece was because of Mr. Serkin’s splendid performance, which inspired the orchestra to its most solid, textured playing. Review: Max Reger, an Orphan-Composer Adopted for a Night 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z But Mr. Bychkov made a case for his claim, highlighting the chamber-music-like interchanges of soloists not only in the concerto but also in the symphony. Review: Semyon Bychkov Leads the New York Philharmonic 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z Not this concerto, though, which is written in one continuous, episodic movement of nearly 30 minutes. Boston Symphony Shows Verve Even Without Levine 2011-03-16T06:11:47Z The concerto travels to Berlin and Vienna this fall. Olga Neuwirth Maintains Eclectic Path in Her Music 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z Shadows, similarly, is part tone poem, part concerto. LPO/Jurowski ? review 2011-01-27T22:00:03Z Like Lewis, like Ludwig: if he can master the impossibilities of his own teenage scherzo, the Beethoven concertos should be a cinch. Five difficult pieces 2010-04-22T22:00:00Z Harding is clearly a solid musician, but I didn’t take anything particularly distinctive from his approach to either “Heldenleben” or the other canonical piece on the program, Beethoven’s fifth piano concerto. Review | Even a great orchestra needs a great conductor: Concertgebouw pales at Kennedy Center 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z Goldston did accept an opportunity last year to be the soloist in a cello concerto with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Seattle cellist Lori Goldston, who played with Nirvana’s 1993-94 tour, brings her silent-film scores to Base 2018-05-01T04:00:00Z Framed by Kylián against a Mozart piano concerto, these attitudes are at once foolish and melancholy, as are those of the six women who follow the men. Ecstasy and Death; Romeo and Juliet – review 2013-04-20T23:06:09Z “Full Moon and Empty Arms,” adapted from Rachmaninoff’s second piano concerto, becomes a ghostly country shuffle; even as Mr. Dylan sings about wishing for a reunion, his voice knows better than to hope. Releases From Bob Dylan and Diana Krall 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z Viktoria Mullova plays the E and A minor concertos, plus arrangements of the Concerto for Oboe, Violin and Continuo and the Harpsichord Concerto in E. At 7:30 p.m., Classical Music Listings for Nov. 11-17 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z A November visit to Chicago for a Beethoven concerto with the Chicago Symphony included a private reading of the work for Mr. Rands. The Way to Carnegie Hall? Success 2011-01-14T20:17:09Z The pianist Conrad Tao played an elegantly unruffled Mozart concerto and a daydreamy “Rhapsody in Blue.” Classical Music Has a Hazy Future in Lincoln Center’s Summers 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z The concerto, along with so much else of Carter's wondrous late output, remains unplayed here. Southwest Chamber Music celebrates Elliott Carter's late career surge 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z Mozart had a pet starling that could sing a theme from one of his piano concertos. At Mostly Mozart, a Menagerie of Bird-Related Works 2012-08-03T18:26:47Z He sold concertos for peanuts and died a pauper the following summer. Review | Europa Galante scores with Vivaldi 2018-01-14T05:00:00Z He removed the romantic excesses that the concerto has acquired over the years from dreamier guitarists, and presented Rodrigo without varnish. Dudamel plants seeds for the future with De Falla and flamenco 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z The very idea of a concerto for bass drum may seem surprising, though not to anyone familiar with the marvels produced by, say, Kodo, the Japanese drumming troupe. Music Review: Prokofiev Version of ?Eugene Onegin? at Princeton 2012-02-12T23:34:22Z By the way, I wrote two classical trumpet concertos. Arturo Sandoval says he owes everything to the audience 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z Adams experiments with a variety of other American vernaculars in “Must the Devil Have All the Good Tunes?,” his third piano concerto. Contemporary music icon John Adams is both composer and conductor in Seattle Symphony return engagement 2021-12-27T05:00:00Z In London, it lasted 50 minutes, and Erica Jeal in the Guardian wrote that it felt like the longest concerto ever written. The short and the long of the American conversation in Wynton Marsalis' Concerto in D at the Bowl 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z Endowed with sweetly spun melodies and a bravura finale, the concerto is an unapologetic showpiece for a virtuoso performer. Music Review: An Exuberant Conductor and a Starry Violinist 2011-08-07T21:48:50Z The concerto is engrossingly done, with the first movement majestically shaped and the finale sensibly paced so that we appreciate its logic as well as her panache. Brahms: Violin Concerto; Clara Schumann: Three Romances – review 2013-02-07T21:55:01Z Apart from symphonic works, he also composed chamber music, solo concertos and ballet music. French composer Dutilleux dies at 97 2013-05-22T14:11:20Z “Twitter is not a debate platform. I used to think it is,” he said on the morning of his Carnegie concert, a Beethoven third concerto with the Vienna Philharmonic. Igor Levit not content to be heard only through piano 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z This dreamy concert was among Lim’s first major professional performances outside his native South Korea, though he is already world-famous for this concerto. Review: Yunchan Lim, Teenage Piano Star, Arrives in New York 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z Percussion concertos tend to sound like orchestra pieces with lots of percussion, Mr. Corigliano said. Review: NY Phil Biennial’s Ambitious Wrap-Up, From Boulez to Bolcom 2016-06-12T04:00:00Z Hardenberger says he's performed the concerto at least 60 times since it was written for him in 1987, but there was no hint of routine. BBCSSO/Hardenberger ? review 2011-03-25T22:00:02Z It was a fitting preface to Luna Pearl Woolf’s “Après Moi, le Déluge,” a strikingly allusive concerto for cello and chorus that movingly reflects on the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina. Music Review: Julian Wachner’s Trinity Choir at Zankel Hall 2012-06-03T22:24:45Z Each new concerto was announced by a man crossing the stage and holding a sign, like a ring girl for classical music, while musicians exited and entered the pit to tune up. Review: In ‘Six Brandenburg Concertos,’ Diluting Bach’s Dancing Spirit 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z Dausgaard says he first became aware of Kopatchinskaja’s style when he was driving and chanced upon her recording of the Tchaikovsky concerto on the radio. Her Seattle Symphony debut drew blood. Now, this fierce violinist brings her fearless artistry back to town. 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z Igor, is the concerto as hard as everyone says it is? ‘It Has It All’: Taking on a Strange, Immense Piano Concerto 2023-06-20T04:00:00Z Berg's concerto is the obvious influence, with textures that seem almost direct quotes, but it's still intensely involving. Jörg Widmann: Violin Concerto; Antiphon; Insel der Sirenen – review 2013-05-23T20:50:01Z For that event, Grosvenor was one of four prize-winning young pianists from around the globe, tackling one or another of the Russian composer’s quartet of piano concertos. Possibly ‘the most remarkable young pianist of our time’? Benjamin Grosvenor is back in Seattle 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z After the pandemic shutdown made that impossible, how did the project morph into your collaboration with Kala Ramnath and a concerto for classical Indian violin? Highly sought-after composer Reena Esmail debuts new piece with Seattle Symphony 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z This piece, despite being in three movements, would almost rather be like three concertos — a concerto in three concertos. A Lifelong Friendship’s Latest Chapter: A Concerto Premiere 2022-10-12T04:00:00Z The young Mendelssohn was a virtuosic performer on piano and violin, and this concerto is an unabashed showpiece for both instruments. Music Review: Proud Parents With Cameras, Clicking Away 2010-12-26T21:39:04Z At age 90, he led the Colburn Orchestra in Tchaikovsky's violin concerto and Holst's "The Planets" at Walt Disney Concert Hall. Neville Marriner, L.A. Chamber Orchestra music director and 'Amadeus' maestro, dies at 92 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z But he found it difficult to reconcile those elements with a concerto about World War One. Gabriel Prokofiev debuts concerto 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z As before, Manze seemed intent upon establishing Mozart as the direct precursor of Beethoven, whether in the relatively early violin concerto or the mature Mozart of “Don Giovanni” and the “Jupiter” Symphony. Some seriously gutsy Mozart stands out at the Hollywood Bowl 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z Nicholas Angelich made his debut Thursday night in the Schumann concerto, and a very respectable debut it was. An exercise in filling an evening: Noseda, NSO are vivid in long 19th-century music 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z The concerto, Mozart's final instrumental work, was written for his friend Anton Stadler, a virtuoso on basset clarinet, which was capable of hitting much lower notes than today's more familiar clarinets. Seattle Symphony celebrates baroque dads 2012-03-01T20:54:05Z Although he had heard Ravel’s G major piano concerto before, he said he had never considered learning it until he saw Jerome Robbins use it in his ballet “In G Major.” Andrew Litton to Lead New York City Ballet Orchestra 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z The trumpet version is something else, an easy way for a notorious deadline junky to avoid actually writing a trumpet concerto and hustle more performances — nothing more. Balsom, Karadaglic a cool match at Hollywood Bowl 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z When Bolcom was putting the finishing touches on that first concerto, in 1976, he had already gained fame as part of the era’s ragtime revival. Decades Later, a Composer Revisits the Piano Concerto 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z The concertos for piano and violin are both extravagantly difficult — not only for the soloists, but also for the orchestra. Unsuk Chin Talks About Her Music and Influences 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z Once-rare visits to New York became more regular for the pianist Igor Levit this year, with two solo recitals and a concerto appearance with the New York Philharmonic — all at Carnegie Hall. Best Classical Music Performances of 2022 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z Flanking that piece in the concert’s first half were two works from the remarkable series of concertos Feldman composed from 1970 on. Music Review: Janacek Philharmonic Ostrava Plays Morton Feldman 2012-11-07T23:12:27Z But he doesn’t want to present Beethoven in Seattle as just a lineup of symphonies, concertos and other major orchestral works. Meet Thomas Dausgaard, Seattle Symphony’s new music director 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z But when she decided to return to the profession, she enjoyed a varied and fulfilling career, playing concertos and recitals, as well as performing with big bands and recording music for film and television. Frances Andrade: 'a force of creativity' 2013-02-08T16:21:53Z This month, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra gave the first performances of “Troubled Water,” a concerto for trombone that movingly invokes the fears and the faiths of freedom seekers on the Underground Railroad. The Composer Carlos Simon Is Busier, and More Honest, Than Ever 2023-05-17T04:00:00Z Classical music review: On Sunday, June 5, the Seattle Symphony’s Artist in Residence brilliantly performed the G Major Piano Concerto of Ravel, a concerto he’s been playing since he was 11. French pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet demonstrates his mastery of Ravel 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z Ausklang examines the relationship between soloist and orchestra in a concerto. Lachenmann weekend - review 2010-10-25T21:29:00Z Berio suggested they give the French premiere of his double piano concerto, which they subsequently played all over the world. These Sisters Have Transformed the Piano Duo 2020-10-25T04:00:00Z The concerto shockingly demanded attention by opening with five taps on the timpani, a radical notion at the time. Beethoven sounds a defiant tone at the Bowl 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z The concerto is also a good fit for the opening-night guest, 27-year-old Joshua Roman, former principal cellist with the symphony and now a renowned soloist. Symphony season breaks boundaries 2011-09-15T01:09:42Z One of her lasting childhood memories is of hearing Claudio Arrau playing the Beethoven 4th piano concerto, jolting through her body like electricity. Martha Argerich is a legend of the classical music world. But she doesn’t act like one. 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z And Cho didn’t simply get through the concerto; he played it from memory, with moments of sublime delicacy. Review: Upended by Global Conflict, the Vienna Philharmonic Plays On 2022-02-27T05:00:00Z A few 20th-century works, among them a Shostakovich concerto and a Schnittke pastiche on Haydn and Mozart, are being plopped into some festival orchestra programs. Louis Langrée and Richard Goode Featured at Mostly Mozart 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z Clearly thinking of his daughter, Shankar suggested that his concerto describes a young girl’s journey into maturity. The Pacific Symphony lives up to its name, with the help of India 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z But with the second movement, populated by eerie apparitions from the "affettuoso" movement of Bach's concerto, the music heated up. London Chamber Orchestra/Warren-Green – review 2013-04-19T16:41:24Z Even though Fröst played a basset clarinet, the elongated early version of the instrument for which Mozart wrote his concerto, Fröst’s style has an unsettling post-Mozart quality to it. Why 1791 in 2017? Gustavo Dudamel searches for meaning in Mozart's last year 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z Both concertos are in C minor, and Mozart’s 24th may be his closest approach to Beethovenian drama and heft. Classical Playlist: Beethoven, Shostakovich, Tigran Mansurian and More 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z Like the Groundhog Day spectacle of votes for a House speaker this week, the performance gave the sense of hearing the same concerto again and again. Review: A Philharmonic Contender Returns to the Podium 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z Harvey's journey towards it is a kind of concerto grosso in which an independent string ensemble maintains a series of barely perceptible chords around which the rest of the orchestra shifts and swirls. BBCSSO/Volkov ? review 2011-08-15T14:08:29Z Composing his concerto, even after “Neo,” brought some surprises. Hundreds of New Concertos Bring the World to the Concert Hall 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z But it wasn’t a barnstorming performance, or a very flashy concerto, and there was no encore. An exercise in filling an evening: Noseda, NSO are vivid in long 19th-century music 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z Of special interest is Morton Feldman’s “Piano and Orchestra,” an unconventional concerto with swaths of mystical music, featuring the superb pianist Emanuel Ax. Michael Tilson Thomas?s American Mavericks 2012-02-24T20:12:23Z There were plenty of pretty details in the orchestral passages of Mozart’s smoothly manicured concerto, too. The Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra at Avery Fisher Hall 2014-08-17T04:00:00Z It had originally been announced as part of Thomas Dausgaard’s inaugural season that you were creating a concerto for the sitar virtuoso Guarav Mazumdar to commemorate the centenary of Ravi Shankar’s birth. Highly sought-after composer Reena Esmail debuts new piece with Seattle Symphony 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z Mr. Siirala played them too, but he was careful not to overdo the stormy Beethovenian drama of this atypical Mozart concerto, one of only two in minor keys. Music Review: At Mostly Mozart, Osmo Vanska and Antti Siirala 2010-08-15T22:23:00Z This week’s program, first performed on Tuesday evening, is the third and last in the orchestra’s Beethoven festival built around the five piano concertos, with Yefim Bronfman as soloist and Alan Gilbert conducting. Glenn Dicterow’s Finale With the Philharmonic Is Beethoven 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z The concerto lurches from episode to episode, with the cello at first playing plaintive, elusive melodic lines, interrupted with panicky scurrying figures, atop gurgling ripples in the percussion. Matthias Pintscher Conducts in the NY Phil Biennial 2014-06-08T04:00:00Z Mr. Tetzlaff conveyed with burnished tone and polished vigor the youthful energy of the concerto, one of five for violin that Mozart composed while a teenager. Work by Schnittke and Haydn at Mostly Mozart 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z A glittering Lunar New Year gala on Wednesday, conducted by Kahchun Wong, included the American premiere of a violin concerto by Tan Dun called “Fire Ritual.” Review: Death, Two Ways, at the New York Philharmonic 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z On the surface, Mr. Rhorer’s program was an old-style Mostly Mozart concert, with a Haydn symphony as the opener, followed by a Mozart concerto and ending with a Mozart symphony. Music Review: Mostly Mozart at Avery Fisher Hall - Review 2011-08-25T22:15:11Z The grandiose opening of the Tchaikovsky concerto is ripe for overemphatic clangor; instead Mr. Lang played with an almost prim decorum and restraint. Music Review: Need a Gala? Tchaikovsky Is a Go-To Guy 2011-01-02T23:00:20Z He had time to compose a violin concerto, immerse himself in scores by Mozart, Beethoven and Brahms, and go for long walks on a golf course near his home in Los Angeles. John Williams, Hollywood’s Maestro, Looks Beyond the Movies 2022-02-08T05:00:00Z It will be intriguing to hear Mendelssohn’s popular violin concerto, often performed with romantic swagger, interpreted by Edward Gardner and the Academy of Ancient Music with the violinist Alina Ibragimova as soloist on Sunday afternoon. Mostly Mozart’s Big Tent Embraces George Benjamin, Dai Fujikura and More 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z On May 23, 1805, he participated in a concert in the Hanover Rooms, along with his brother, who played a Romberg cello concerto. The Black Violinist Who Inspired Beethoven 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z It’s hard to say where Ma’s level of interest in the standard concertos is these days, but precious mannerisms, particularly in the second movement, disrupted the line. In Yo-Yo Ma concert with L.A. Chamber Orchestra, simplicity outshines the showmanship 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z Mr. Andsnes brought out the intricate textures and mystical allure of this wondrously soft-spoken piano concerto. Critic’s Notebook: Under Leif Ove Andsnes, Ojai Festival Enjoys Long Scandinavian Nights 2012-06-12T21:53:19Z At the height of his career, in the 1970s, Mr. Frank was giving some 70 concerts a year, including international tours and concerto performances with orchestras from the Berlin Philharmonic to the San Francisco Symphony. Claude Frank, Pianist Admired for Performances of Beethoven, Is Dead at 89 2014-12-28T05:00:00Z Like many an old saw, the one about Vivaldi writing the same concerto 500 times has a modicum of truth. Europa Galante's graceful time warp back to Vivaldi's final season 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z The earlier “Jeunehomme,” written by Mozart when he was 21 and a court musician in Salzburg, Austria, is a beautiful work that brought his youthful focus on piano concertos to culmination. Pianist Frank Braley returns to Benaroya with Mozart 2014-05-08T22:08:39Z The first, from 1939, sometimes sounds like a throwback, echoing Tchaikovsky’s famous concerto for that instrument and demonstrating Price’s thorough understanding of 19th-century harmony and orchestration. Welcoming a Black Female Composer Into the Canon. Finally. 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z The performance was a fantastic start to Mr. Zimmermann’s residency with the Philharmonic this season, which will include performances of the Beethoven and Dvorak concertos, chamber music and recitals. Music Review: Alan Glibert and Frank Peter Zimmermann on Violin - Review 2011-10-06T19:56:57Z And the glinting, melodically fragmented Davies piano concerto that gives the album its title is another showstopper. In a Dark Time, This Music Will Make You Smile 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z The winner will play their concerto with the orchestra Nov. 30 and Dec. 2 as part of its BNY Mellon Grand Classics subscription concert series. AP: Pa. symphony seeks soloist via YouTube contest 2012-02-09T17:55:10Z Mr. Morris opted instead to delve into the concertos. Does Mozart Defy the Limits of Dance? Mark Morris Begs to Differ. 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z Her other compositions include works for traditional classical forces, like a ruminative violin concerto and a restless string trio, both inflected with maqam modes. A Violinist Questions the Musical Divide Between West and East 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z But ask a conductor about the concerto, and you’ll probably learn something quite different. Perspective | The best way to understand a Beethoven concerto? From a musician’s point of view. 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z This four-movement piece of nearly 30 minutes is like a concerto for piano and a deferential roster of strings. Music Review: Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center - Review 2011-11-21T23:13:14Z Then, in a mutual decision with the Philharmonic, he withdrew from this week’s program, featuring the Rachmaninoff concerto. Review: Two Artists Arrive at the Philharmonic, Loudly 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z It began with an overture, Dvorák's Carnival, and ended with a symphony, Tchaikovsky's Fifth, both excitable, heart-on-sleeve performances, and a violin concerto was sandwiched in between. BBCSO/Bringuier ? review 2012-02-13T17:51:34Z The concerto’s second edition didn’t come about until 1970, according to Nancy B. Reich’s biography “Clara Schumann: The Artist and the Woman.” Clara Schumann and Florence Price Get Their Due at Carnegie Hall 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z Schiff’s latest venture in this arena is his most convincing yet: a vibrant new recording of Brahms’s two piano concertos with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. A Pianist Comes Around on Period Instruments 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z A solo cadenza near the end of the concerto is too astonishing for words. Susanna Mälkki brings more news to the Los Angeles Philharmonic 2017-10-30T04:00:00Z Vivaldi’s operas demand virtuosity of the singers at least on par with that required of violinists in his concertos. The music of ‘Catone in Utica’ conquers the night 2015-11-29T05:00:00Z An important and beloved staple in violin repertoire, the concerto helped solidify a Seattle fan base early in Salerno-Sonnenberg's career and appeared on her first professional recording, conducted by Schwarz. Mendelssohn fans: Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg in Seattle May 18-19 2012-05-17T19:59:12Z In a bold choice, Ms. Adolphe ends the concerto with a slow, pensive final movement, “Embracing Mist.” New York Philharmonic’s Next Leader Gives a Taste of Things to Come 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z For the first program, the idea was to reach a broader public by engaging a pop star with a jones for classical music: the singer-songwriter Ben Folds, who wrote a full-bore piano concerto last year. Concert designed to blend best of pop and classical offers neither 2015-12-06T05:00:00Z The sparkle carried over to Mozart, who wrote the concerto as a loving dialogue for himself and his sister. L.A. Phil throws a Mozart gala with Dudamel, Wang, Thibaudet and fly chocolate balls 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z Sorey and Woods both share the influence of the late George Walker, the first African American composer to win the Pulitzer Prize, who approached his own cello concerto nontraditionally. Volcanic drummer and MacArthur ‘genius grant’ winner Tyshawn Sorey premieres new work with Seattle Symphony 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z The Pulitzer board said Higdon's concerto "combines flowing lyricism with dazzling virtuosity." The 2010 Pulitzer Prize winners 2010-04-12T22:55:00Z The new violin concerto for the Celebrate Asia program belongs to this harvest of new works. Highly sought-after composer Reena Esmail debuts new piece with Seattle Symphony 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z The program looked daft but interesting: one orchestra, one conductor, three pianists, all five of Prokofiev’s piano concertos. Prom Math: One Night, Five Prokofiev Concertos 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z In the early 1970s, Mr. Coleman began writing a concerto grosso called “Skies of America,”eventually recorded with the London Symphony Orchestra in 1972. Ornette Coleman, Jazz Innovator, Dies at 85 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z The evening’s expectation was for a great “Rach 3,” as the concerto’s fans like to call it. Can two sensations make revolutionary music? Conductor Dudamel and pianist Trifonov try to find a spark 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z Like that account, Mr. Frost’s reading of the Mozart concerto was a paragon of lyricism: breathtaking in its pianissimos, utterly fluid in its legatos, gleaming in its ornamental flourishes. Music Review: Martin Frost, Clarinetist, and the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra 2013-12-09T21:54:32Z Despite the strong performance, the concerto itself still felt like a minor entry in this composer’s catalog. Review: Philip Glass, Easy to Mimic but Hard to Match 2017-12-10T05:00:00Z Much the same is true of this collection of the keyboard concertos, which Ramin Bahrami plays on a modern grand piano. Bach: Five Keyboard Concertos ? review 2011-07-21T20:30:02Z Jacobs is scheduled to play the Rouse concerto with the National Symphony Orchestra in 2017. Freeing the pipe organ from the usual grind 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z Mr. Schiff performs the three Bartok piano concertos over two evenings. The New Season: Tchaikovsky, Dress Codes, And 3-D Opera 2011-09-16T19:50:18Z But his penchant for self-indulgent, overly emotive playing usually takes over, as it did in the Grieg concerto. Review: Lang Lang Opens Philharmonic Season, as Avery Fisher Hall Is Renamed 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z A quartet of Marines began a concerto for strings as the crowd broke up. Perspective | ‘How do you get through that whole stuff?’: Donald Trump leads a nation in prayer 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z The title is Hebrew for the vision or aura of a face, and the concerto might be likened to the enticing blur before the eyes focus or an intriguing figure in the fog. Getting to know — or at least trying to — Matthias Pintscher at an L.A. Phil concert 2018-01-07T05:00:00Z The music of “Allegro Brillante” is from an unfinished third piano concerto. Dance Review: New York City Ballet at Koch Theater 2013-01-18T23:37:16Z The musicians must play certain concertos without accompaniment, and orchestra musicians and other officials will judge the clips and post 20 semi-finalist videos on April 13. AP: Pa. symphony seeks soloist via YouTube contest 2012-02-09T17:55:10Z All three of the programs feature an overture, a symphony and a concerto — two concertos on the first program on Friday and Saturday, with three NSO principals. Review | At the Forever Mozart mini-festival, beloved composer makes everyone look good 2019-06-16T04:00:00Z So, without a warm-up, he played from his audition — a virtuosic concerto — on the spot. A Young Horn Player Could Become ‘a Real Legend’ 2022-06-06T04:00:00Z Despite knowing one another for five decades, the rock concerto is their first collaboration together. Mike Mills’ classical rock: Life after R.E.M. includes a new violin concerto bringing orchestra crowds to their feet 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z Soon, percussive blasts and wailing orchestra chords lend the concerto a little “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” action. Music Review: New York Philharmonic Celebrates Lunar New Year 2014-02-02T22:29:54Z In the 60s he produced acclaimed operas, symphonies, concertos and choral works. A life in music: Richard Rodney Bennett 2011-07-22T22:55:02Z His programs always featured piano concertos he wrote for himself. What Shouldn’t Change About Classical Music 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z It was “Erna,” composed with vibraphone in mind, and it took on the air of a concerto, as he tested the instrument’s capacity for eerie luminescence and throbbing overtone. Music Review: Nate Wooley Quintet Omega at Brooklyn Lyceum - Review 2011-12-01T23:16:00Z Rice said she's been practicing furiously for her performance of Mozart's piano concerto in D Minor with the orchestra. With sweetness, soul, Aretha and Rice make music 2010-07-27T10:31:00Z The musical character of the concerto is that of a composer much in demand working fast. Herbert Blomstedt leads L.A. Phil's commanding Bruckner performance 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z But the season opens in understated fashion, with Anne-Sophie Mutter playing and leading the five Mozart violin concertos over two nights. The New Season: Tchaikovsky, Dress Codes, And 3-D Opera 2011-09-16T19:50:18Z When you talk about a piano concerto with such words as “longest” and “most difficult,” people tend to be put off. Pianist Ohlsson brings elegance to a whiz-bang performance of massive Busoni That night, the New York Philharmonic had “limited availability” for its concert of extremely standard fare — Mozart’s “Turkish” violin concerto, Beethoven’s “Pastoral” Symphony. Review: A Conductor Unearths Rarities. Will People Listen? 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z The first movement begins with one of the most soaring, glorious themes of any violin concerto. New York String Orchestra Performs at Carnegie Hall 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z But here’s hoping we also hear more of Davis’s music; how about his piano concerto “Wayang V,” with its composer as soloist? Review: At the Philharmonic, Contemporary Is King for a Week 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z In addition, he recorded Mozart’s and Haydn’s symphonies as well as Beethoven’s symphonies and piano concertos — all of which displayed a rousing, dancelike quality that brought Mr. Hogwood classical superstardom in the 1980s. Christopher Hogwood, conductor who gave new drive to classical warhorses, dies at 73 And what is more fun than a trombone concerto? NSO enjoys itself (cue glad trombone) 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z Soon the piano plays an arching theme in right-hand octaves, like some passing nod to those soaring-melody moments of Romantic piano concertos. Review: Concert Hall, Meet Cabaret 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z Further instructions force him to carry on a running dialogue with his mysterious tormentor while playing this embarrassing excuse for a piano concerto. Movie Review: In ‘Grand Piano,’ an Unknown Stalks a Musician Making a Comeback 2014-03-07T01:12:49Z I suggest the kitchen would be more easily paid off by a solo career path on modern instruments, perhaps through the Romantic concerto repertoire. Rachel Podger 2010-12-09T21:31:00Z Surrounding the two symphonies were concertos by the Mozarts, father and son. If the music is Baroque, don't fix it 2011-01-26T15:22:15Z Two nights ago, his 2005 trumpet concerto From the Wreckage commanded the stage at the Hall, London. LSO/Harding – review 2013-02-08T12:46:35Z Maybe because there is only one Alexander Toradze — and it's hard to imagine any other pianist playing this wild and woolly concerto with the same degree of authority, mastery and utter abandon. Review: Symphony does Prokofiev proud 2010-04-02T18:57:00Z A piece of those proportions is the standard concert opener, often leading to a rather longer concerto before intermission and, after it, a meaty symphony. 400 Days Later, the New York Philharmonic Returns 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z Only knowing Zimmermann’s concerto from recordings, I can’t say that the cellists were able to achieve the last word in interpretive nuance under such unreasonable conditions. Three L.A. cellists save the day with last-minute musical theatrics for the Phil 2018-01-21T05:00:00Z There was a piano concerto, too, Bartók's First, offering a rare opportunity to hear the pianist, conductor and composer Zoltán Kocsis as a soloist. LSO/Ad?s 2010-06-09T21:31:00Z Paul Lewis joined the orchestra for the second of Beethoven's piano concertos as part of his complete cycle. Proms 16 & 17: CBSO/Nelsons; SCO/Boyd 2010-07-30T11:09:00Z Meanwhile, they are offering subscribers a glowing and full-blooded account of the Schumann concerto. Muti's 'arrivederci' for the CSO subscription season has audience clamoring for more 2011-05-13T17:51:23Z Thile is particularly amazing to watch and to hear, strumming and tapping and scratching his mandolin, then exploding into impossibly fast fingerwork as challenging as any violin concerto. Premiere of ‘Inland Seas’ generates buzz at Seattle Chamber Music Society’s summer festival 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z Mr. Gerstein’s playing in the Schumann concerto was scintillating and impetuous. Encouraging Signs of Freshness at the Mostly Mozart Festival 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z At 16, he played the Mozart flute and harp concerto with the St. Louis Symphony. Druzinsky: CSO harpist known as a dedicated musician 2011-01-10T19:12:00Z The only big piece was the Second Symphony, subtitled "The Age of Anxiety," which is also a piano concerto. Carl St.Clair leads Pacific Symphony in Leonard Bernstein ode 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z And then we see somebody play a beautiful piano concerto and we go, “Oh, people are the best.” Jerry Seinfeld on Louis C.K., Roseanne and Tense Times in Comedy 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z In the typical template for a classical concert, the crowd-pleasing concerto is the appetizer before the big, symphonic main course. Review | André Watts is star attraction at Baltimore Symphony Orchestra 2017-11-19T05:00:00Z She premiered James MacMillan’s Violin Concerto No. 2 last fall, and is touring Szymanowski’s second concerto with orchestras in Berlin, Manchester and Boston this month. A Violinist Prepares Her Next Star Turn: Festival Leader 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z He wrote nine symphonies, seven ballets, more than 20 concertos and 132 film scores, winning an Academy Award for “The Bridge on the River Kwai,” before dying in 2006, at 84. The Hilarious, Heartbreaking Life and Music of Malcolm Arnold 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z While it’s not nearly as intricate as the flute concerto or Haffner Serenade, it’s bright and bold in character — and of course it’s remarkable, given his age. Symphony flutist in spotlight at Benaroya, on NBC 2013-02-21T23:21:17Z At the very same lesson, Gingold was helping me discover the Mendelssohn violin concerto, with which I also fell in love. Carrie Brownstein, Carly Rae Jepsen and Others on First-Time Cultural Experiences 2015-09-06T04:00:00Z Mr. Hogwood’s more than 200 recordings include the complete Mozart symphonies and the complete Mozart piano concertos, with the pianist Robert Levin. Christopher Hogwood, Early-Music Devotee, Dies at 73 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z A youthful work that doesn’t quite amount to top-shelf Mendelssohn, the concerto nonetheless offered soaring melodies and ample opportunities for Mr. Bell and Mr. Denk to engage in racing solo lines and breathtaking duo passages. Music Review: Joshua Bell With Jeremy Denk at Mostly Mozart 2010-08-20T22:18:00Z Brandenburg cycles are popular for good reasons: Each concerto is different from the others in instrumentation and the inspiration level is astonishingly high, even for Bach. L.A. Chamber Orchestra carries on a different holiday tradition: Bach's Brandenburg Concertos 2017-12-12T05:00:00Z Mr. Gilbert and the orchestra are recording the symphonies and concertos for the Danish label Dacapo. The New Season: Tchaikovsky, Dress Codes, And 3-D Opera 2011-09-16T19:50:18Z The concerto was not, in fact, the highlight of the program, despite a committed performance from Karen Gomyo, who bravely made her debut with the orchestra in this unfamiliar work. At NSO, German composer leads French music — and his own 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z I'm not claiming Manhattan Intermezzo is a piece that takes the concerto genre to places it has never been before, or that it marks a high point in contemporary composition. Neil Sedaka: 'My great love is classical music' 2012-10-12T16:47:00Z Gardiner and his soloist Lars Vogt carefully emphasised both the score's centrality to the concerto tradition and its pivotal nature, peering back towards Schumann, yet also anticipating the grander statements of Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninov. Czech Philharmonic/Gardiner 2010-08-30T10:51:00Z This gives it an almost woeful feel, grounding the entire concerto. Does Mozart Defy the Limits of Dance? Mark Morris Begs to Differ. 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z Jones is completing a new violin concerto for Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, and a chamber version of his opera, “A Christmas Memory,” based on the beloved short story by Truman Capote. One last Seattle Symphony Orchestra concert for composer Samuel Jones 2013-04-26T20:21:20Z Otherwise, the 26-minute Jalbert concerto behaved the way most violin concertos do, with some patches of sustained song, plenty of virtuoso display points, two cadenzas for the soloist. For Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, the welcome return of some familiar faces 2018-03-19T04:00:00Z "Scheherazade.2" is very much a concerto, but Adams also calls it a dramatic symphony in the manner of Berlioz's dramatically structured symphonic works. Violinist Leila Josefowicz is a powerful storyteller in John Adams' 'Scheherazade.2' 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z Livelier moments occurred during the finale and in the third concerto, in which a group of men skipped and swirled around the stage, swinging their arms gamely as they bounced forward and back. Review: In ‘Six Brandenburg Concertos,’ Diluting Bach’s Dancing Spirit 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z Ms. Chang was scheduled to play a concerto in a program with the Detroit Symphony last week. Violinist Cancels Recital Over Detroit Strike Tension 2010-10-11T21:52:00Z After I mastered my first concerto at age 14, my parents decided to get me a nice violin. How a violin helped me find my voice 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z The concerto shows MacMillan at his very best, shifting fluently between evocative soundscapes and shot through with moments of haunting beauty. SCO/Fischer – review 2013-02-03T18:43:21Z For this visit to Carnegie, Mr. Gergiev brought along two pianists to play concertos. The Mariinsky in Two All-Russian Programs at Carnegie Hall 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z Until about three years ago, the emphasis of Wang’s concerto repertoire was on the Russian composers — Rachmaninoff, Prokofiev, Tchaikovsky. Piano virtuoso Yuja Wang could have gone anywhere for this interview. She chose ... Universal Studios? 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z Yefim Bronfman, the burly soloist in the Brahms, is one of the few pianists who can make this bruising concerto seem like child’s play. Chicago Orchestra at Carnegie Hall and Beyond 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z A moment or two of less-than-perfectly taut ensemble in the first movement of the concerto aside, Schwarz secured magnificent orchestral playing throughout the evening. Review: The return of the ranking cellist ? Yo-Yo Ma 2010-12-08T19:22:00Z Brahms’s youthful, tumultuous concerto, symphonic in scope, opens with a dramatic roll of thunder from the timpani. Music Review: From a Chair, Not a Bench, Exploring Brahms?s Poetry 2011-01-23T22:51:13Z The Manhattan orchestra, he said, has to accommodate eight competition winners every year in concertos, and the Sibelius seemed to him an appropriate partner for the Strauss work. Juilliard and the Manhattan School of Music Play Strauss’s ‘Ein Heldenleben’ 2015-03-01T05:00:00Z Among the Isarphilharmonie’s opening offerings is Trifonov’s first outing playing all five Beethoven concertos, but in the Fourth he entered with muddled phrasing that virtually contradicted the transparency of the Escaich. A Temporary Concert Hall Hopes for a Permanent Audience 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z Mr. Beaser, one of four faculty members in town to preside over master classes at the new-music festival, spoke of agonizing over the concerto for a decade. Critic’s Notebook: Robert Beaser’s Guitar Concerto at June in Buffalo Festival 2012-06-13T21:58:39Z The novel slow movement is like a trio for solo violin, solo cello and, eventually, the piano, that morphs subtly into a concerto movement. The Mariinsky in Two All-Russian Programs at Carnegie Hall 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z His new concerto has a similar origin story. Adès and Adams: Big Composers With Simultaneous Big Premieres 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z Notable returnees included the violinist Daniel Phillips, of the Orion String Quartet, who led two concertos, setting blistering paces, particularly exciting in the Third. ‘Brandenburg’ Concertos at Alice Tully Hall 2014-12-14T05:00:00Z The conductor and Mr. Thibaudet were clearly on the same page for their performance of the Liszt concerto. Music Review | Yannick N?zet-S?guin: Youthful Intensity, Onstage and in the Program 2010-02-19T04:51:00Z But think of the string quartets, the piano sonatas, the violin sonatas, the cello sonatas, the piano concertos. Q&A: Can’t stop, won’t stop: Famous conductor’s show goes on 2019-03-03T05:00:00Z A Bach chaconne also inspired the final movement of Brahms’s Fourth Symphony, which concluded the program and whose dark mood mirrors Mozart’s turbulent concerto. Review: Jeremy Denk in a Full-Blooded Performance at Mostly Mozart 2015-08-02T04:00:00Z About midway through the concerto, as the orchestra remains quite feisty, the flute, as if in its own zone, just keeps playing steady, pensive passages. Music Review: Elliott Carter?s Concerto for Flute - Review 2011-09-30T22:55:05Z For all its fluency, the least interesting of the pieces here is the early piano concerto, which Dobrzyński composed when he was just 17, but which apparently was never played in public in his lifetime. Dobrzyński: Overture to Monbar; Piano Concerto; Symphony No 2 – review 2013-07-11T16:58:46Z Nicholas Daniel then performed MacMillan's new oboe concerto, written for this renowned soloist who is also a player in the Britten Sinfonia. The Merry Widow; Britten Sinfonia 2010-10-23T23:06:00Z While acclaim has been the norm for the concerto, it has also gotten a dose of notoriety as well. Violinist Leila Josefowicz is a powerful storyteller in John Adams' 'Scheherazade.2' 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z This music — like Poulenc’s otherwise very dissimilar concerto — commutes fascinatingly between Baroque and Modernist thoughts. Dance Review: Underworld Notes, in the Homeric Sense 2014-02-02T22:31:20Z He will perform the five concertos in two concerts at Carnegie Hall in February. Musicians Grapple With Beethoven 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z In a recent interview with The New York Times on Facebook Live, he discussed why Dvorak’s concerto remains somewhat overlooked and, playing excerpts, analyzed its elusive beauties. Review: A Fast-Rising Czech Conductor Leads the Philharmonic 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z A restless, continuous piece of nearly 25 minutes, “Absolute Jest” is a kind of concerto for string quartet and orchestra. For John Adams, a Day of Music, Not Protests 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z More than a decade ago the formidable Polish pianist Krystian Zimerman, tired of hearing everyone trash the orchestrations of Chopin’s two piano concertos, decided to do something about it. Music Critics? Picks for Chopin Bicentennial 2010-05-27T21:03:00Z I learned that he’d been born in 1913, and that when he was fourteen he was invited to play a Mozart concerto with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Jim Copp, the Forgotten Virtuoso of Children’s Storytelling 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z The four-movement concerto begins in tribute to Gershwin, with a Rhapsody. The short and the long of the American conversation in Wynton Marsalis' Concerto in D at the Bowl 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z In their own postmodern ways, these concertos acknowledge the genre’s long and wide-ranging history, while also searching for what else it is capable of. Adès and Adams: Big Composers With Simultaneous Big Premieres 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z Beethoven symphonies, the First and the Seventh, framed these concertos. Prom 18: BBCNOW/Fischer ? review 2011-07-29T11:12:16Z Since then he has taken an unusually eclectic path, recording the concertos and sonatas of Mendelssohn, Grieg, Fauré and Walton on the one hand, while premiering works by cutting-edge contemporary composers on the other. String fellow 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z Robertson provided a respectable accompaniment to the concerto, but seemed more engaged in Bartók's Cantata Profana, which opened the second half. BBCSO/Robertson 2010-08-23T11:10:00Z Making it as an 11th-hour substitute, in Brahms’s epic second piano concerto — one of the longest concertos in the repertoire — is going to remain in Inon Barnatan’s mind for a very long time. Review | Lithe Brahms in an unexpected debut 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z In the catchy tunes of the finale, Mr. Ax’s bouncy lightness and gossamer colorings made clear that Italianate sunniness infuses this mostly intense Germanic concerto. Review: ‘Canta-Concerto’ by Marc Neikrug by the New York Philharmonic 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z A better way to put it, though, may be that Vivaldi never stopped writing the same concerto, especially for violin. Europa Galante's graceful time warp back to Vivaldi's final season 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z Between Monday and Wednesday, each will perform one of Chopin’s two piano concertos, with the orchestra, before the audience at the National Philharmonic in Warsaw which is traditionally packed for the concerts. 12 pianists in final stage of prestigious Chopin competition 2021-10-18T04:00:00Z Her familiarity with this concerto showed in the ease with which she performed it and her comfort with its idioms. British flag flies high at Seattle Symphony 2011-11-18T18:22:03Z Mr. Lin’s double concerto is most ambitious toward the end, when resolutely tonal sound blocks from the tuned percussion and brass evoke a still landscape, crossed by flutters from the woodwind, cello and sheng. Review: The New York Philharmonic Celebrates the Chinese New Year 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z The program was to begin a complete survey of Brahms’s symphonies and concertos, not in itself a headline-grabbing development. Music Review: Kurt Masur Leads New York Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall 2012-11-09T23:40:08Z The violin writing is episodic, all fits and starts, with perpetual-motion passages and bittersweet melodic flights, though nothing dwells too long in this restless concerto. Christopher Rouse and EarShot Premieres From Philharmonic 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z Ms. Uchida, much admired as a Mozart interpreter, also performed Mozart concertos earlier this month at Carnegie with the Cleveland Orchestra and is offering master classes this week for young pianists. Review: Mitsuko Uchida Plays Notes as Delicate as a Crane’s Legs 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z These two artists have struck quite the partnership; they play piano duos at Zankel Hall on March 13 and bring the new concerto to Carnegie on March 20. Two Coasts, Two Concertos: Adès and Adams Offer Piano Premieres 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z “Fragments,” a 2006 concerto dedicated to Bach and Thelonious Monk, features an improvised piano solo. Black Composers Discuss the Role of Race 2014-08-08T04:00:00Z Yet when I joined students and faculty members around a table to hear a live recording of his piano concerto, an hourlong monster of a piece, I was stunned by its shaggy wildness. Accessing a Place Of Shaggy Wildness 2011-05-14T04:00:07Z Hewitt brought both concertos to life with her trademark artistic integrity. Britten Sinfonia/Hewitt – review 2013-01-17T17:48:32Z This left the U.S. premiere of a percussion concerto by the Scottish composer Helen Grime, who teaches at the Royal Holloway, University of London. Review | Percussion concerto offers less bang than whimper 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z It culminated on the upswing, with a passage of slowly rising chords reminiscent of the irresolute, parallel motion in “Skies of America,” Coleman’s major concerto. Ornette Coleman’s Innovations Are Celebrated at Lincoln Center 2017-07-17T04:00:00Z Mr. Adams is rarely enigmatic; this concerto seems an exception. Are Bruckner Symphonies Now the Proving Ground for Conductors? 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z An endless succession of encores seemed to outlast the audience’s enthusiasm, including when eight flute students performed with the Galways for one of Joseph Bodein de Boismortier’s concertos for five flutes. James Galway still knows how to spin out a beautiful phrase 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z Esmail spoke about the new concerto she has created with Ramnath — and about what it means for different cultures to listen to each other. Highly sought-after composer Reena Esmail debuts new piece with Seattle Symphony 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z Maybe it was the night’s full moon, but what are the odds that this concerto, which not only quotes a spiritual, ends with the obscure Baroque form of a quodlibet? Dvorak's 'New World' and a new piano concerto for our times at the Hollywood Bowl 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z Though Vivaldi has become a staple of what passes for classical radio these days, mainly through a handful of concertos, his operas remain rarities. Review: Vivaldi’s ‘Catone in Utica’ Gets a Rare Staging 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z The concerto seems frozen between states, its harmonic center melting away without ever evaporating, but in Mälkki’s expert hands, it could sound almost traditional in structure. Review: Ligeti’s Fascinating Polyrhythm at the New York Phil 2023-11-03T04:00:00Z On his commute to and from middle school, he often played a 1978 recording of the Rachmaninoff concerto by Vladimir Horowitz and the Philharmonic. A 19-Year-Old Pianist Electrifies Audiences. But He’s Unimpressed. 2023-05-09T04:00:00Z Bach fanciers happily accept a number of concertos that he arranged from works of others, among them Vivaldi, Telemann and Johann Ernst. Rearranging Ideas About Alternate Arrangements 2010-06-11T14:18:00Z Velinzon’s Brahms was expansive and unhurried, his tone moderately sized and flexible, and his technique well able to handle the concerto’s demands. Solos step up in Symphony’s take on two masterpieces 2014-04-26T00:46:53Z It's one of the strongest, most dramatic concertos in the repertoire. Violinist Augustin Hadelich will be Seattle Symphony's guest 2012-04-05T19:29:03Z This is a symphony of solos, at times almost a concerto for the L.A. Salonen leads Yuja Wang, L.A. Phil through Russian turmoil 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z Instead, there are echoes of Vivaldi’s concertos for mandolin in the opening movement, and a Mediterranean flavor to the dark-hued second movement. Béla Fleck Joins the Knights at Pace University Show 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z The piece is in no way a traditional concerto, showcasing pyrotechnical instrumental virtuosity, though Sorey did, in fact, write it with cellist and former Seattle Symphony artist-in-residence Seth Parker Woods specifically in mind. Volcanic drummer and MacArthur ‘genius grant’ winner Tyshawn Sorey premieres new work with Seattle Symphony 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z Originally commissioned by the pianist and Hollywood celebrity Oscar Levant, it is a concerto with a kick in its step as it modernizes an old Mozartean tradition. Gustavo Dudamel celebrates his 36th birthday with some Schoenberg 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z In his recent guest spots on Amazon’s “Mozart in the Jungle,” Mulroney introduced his musician character by playing the prelude to the Lalo concerto. Dermot Mulroney's role in 'Rogue One': playing cello on the soundtrack 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z In the Gershwin, the strings dug into the score’s songful lines so eagerly that Ms. Wang was often overpowered, although at times they lacked the flexibility needed for the concerto’s Charleston, blues and ragtime beats. Review: Yuja Wang and the London Symphony Get Jazzy 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z The concerto probably needs to calm down slightly, find more focus and balance, but that is likely to happen with repetition. As the Los Angeles Philharmonic tours, Gustavo Dudamel seems determined to shake up his audiences 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z He zoomed in on particular gestures, such as Beethoven’s curious exploitation of trills — bombastic and lyrical — to suggest connections across all three movements, and was attentive to the concerto’s enormous span of contrasts. Seattle Symphony reaches another high with John Luther Adams’ searingly beautiful ‘Become Desert’ 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z In a return to the Philharmonic this fall he is taking part in a survey of Brahms’s complete symphonies and concertos, which began on Nov. 7. Music Review: Kurt Masur and New York Philharmonic 2012-11-17T00:22:56Z Then he would put a steak — a Bach suite, and it was also common those days to play a concerto. Amit Peled, Cellist, Walks in the Footsteps of Pablo Casals 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z Now I’m getting ready to rehearse his piano concerto tomorrow morning, and it’s a style that I know very well. A Lifelong Friendship’s Latest Chapter: A Concerto Premiere 2022-10-12T04:00:00Z There's magic in the concerto, too, as the soloist guides us through a world rich in mystery, murmurs and transcendent beauty. Hall?/Knussen - review 2011-02-06T17:50:05Z Orchestrated with the forces of maximal Romantic grandeur, the Rachmaninoff concerto tends to overpower soloists — who, denied a traditional cadenza in the first movement, must often settle for hand-cramping virtuosity that hardly anyone can hear. Review: Two Artists Arrive at the Philharmonic, Loudly 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z Her main event was the Tchaikovsky concerto, a war horse’s war horse but a piece that done correctly, demands respect. Nelsons Turns Tanglewood Into Bayreuth-in-the-Berkshires 2017-07-17T04:00:00Z Harris’s pulsing, restless chamber concerto exudes spunky vitality and romantic fervor. Copland, Thomson and Others in a Fantasy Music Festival 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z The two generations even collaborated, especially in the new genre of the public keyboard concerto, which Esfahani says they helped invent within the span of just a few years. A controversial harpsichordist? The adventurous Mahan Esfahani makes his Seattle Symphony debut 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z Gražinytė-Tyla deferred to him as the concerto’s narrator, with modest accompaniment and rarely blooming grandeur. Review: A Conductor Takes a Victory Lap With Her Orchestra 2022-10-23T04:00:00Z But the organization typically ends the season with a gala benefit concert in which, after some celebratory speeches onstage, three recent winners of its international auditions play concertos. Music Review: Young Concert Artists Gala at Alice Tully Hall 2013-05-17T21:18:15Z While not overly showy technically, Grieg's concerto does make demands on a pianist. Jean-Yves Thibaudet's lyrical piano brightens L.A. Phil concert 2016-04-30T04:00:00Z His explorations of instrumental byways have included a concerto for viola da gamba, a song for voice and baryton, and a duet for two lutes. Stephen Dodgson obituary 2013-04-15T15:52:17Z The concerto was actually sketched out a couple of years before Mozart finally wrote it, when he needed something for a concert that might bring in money. Dudamel, Mozart and the hope and joy of 1791 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z In October Ms. Sirota performed with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, playing the American premiere of a concerto Mr. Muhly wrote for her. With ‘Meet the Composer,’ Nadia Sirota Illuminates New Music 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z Biondi placed three late violin concertos in the environment of the kind of music that was common in mid-18th century Vienna, which was on the cusp of becoming the center of the music world. Europa Galante's graceful time warp back to Vivaldi's final season 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z Both efforts gave birth to “Strange Seasons,” Grad’s groundbreaking new concerto for electric theorbo. The magic lute: Baroque instrument gets electric update for world premiere 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z In partnership with Hahn, the orchestra gave Barber’s violin concerto some thrillingly rough-hewed edges, cutting against its public reputation as lighter fare. Two Gems of June: Premieres at Carnegie Hall and Harlem School of the Arts 2022-06-12T04:00:00Z The trade-off is that the concerto comes across as an integrated and colossal piano piece. Music Review: Cyprien Katsaris at the International Keyboard Festival 2012-07-17T22:20:52Z The notes also draw comparisons with Elgar concertos, but there is little personality here comparable to Elgar’s. Music Review: A Stick in the Spokes of a Philharmonic Night 2011-06-17T22:29:44Z Hearing Weilerstein’s easy, unforced virtuosity and her spectacular command of musical details in the concerto was a revelation. How does watching a Seattle Symphony concert from home compare to a live concert? 2020-11-14T05:00:00Z Beethoven's concertos are, and have always been, in the repertory of nearly all concert pianists. Dudamel, L.A. Phil scale down amid Andsnes' elegant Beethoven 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z As for Bates’s new concerto, it is an appealing, quirky piece — too long, in my estimation, but a lot of fun. NSO showcases Kennedy Center’s composer in residence, older American gems 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z Despite the title, the concerto is also written for percussion and double basses; nonetheless, it’s a gambit of orchestration, pitting a string soloist against an ensemble of much louder instruments. Kurt Weill’s Path From Europe to Broadway Was a Straight Line 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z The concertos pop up, one or two at a time, throughout the year, but it has become a tradition to play them together during the holiday season. Music Review: Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Plays Bach 2013-12-17T22:02:05Z When Ms. Hahn was a student at the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia, she took Ms. Higdon’s music history course, and Curtis was one of several institutions that commissioned the concerto. Music Review: Sound That?s Lush and Slow, Speedy and Precise 2011-02-16T22:49:49Z In an unusual but welcome departure from conventional concerto performances, Schimpf took his curtain call and sat back down at the piano to play an encore — Grieg’s bucolic Nocturne Op. Fairfax Symphony Orchestra gives grand season opener Still, it is a concerto all about tuning and what happens to sound when you mess with the acoustical properties of instruments. Gustavo Dudamel taps into the power of sound at the Hollywood Bowl 2017-08-23T04:00:00Z Indeed, where the symphony offers an elegy, the concerto is pulled constantly downward as if by gravity. Review: Carnegie Hall’s Season Opens With Two Faces of Cleveland 2019-10-06T04:00:00Z Until the New York Philharmonic played Charles Ives’s short, indelible “The Unanswered Question” on Wednesday at David Geffen Hall under Susanna Mälkki’s baton, I had never thought of it as a tiny double concerto. Review: A Concerto Makes Two Soloists a Many-Tentacled Creature 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z In the Tchaikovsky concerto Ms. Wang gave the kind of commandingly virtuosic and brilliantly colorful performance we have come to expect from her, to the delight of delirious fans in the hall. Review: U.S. Youth Orchestra Inspires a Chinese Counterpart 2017-07-23T04:00:00Z The main event, the concerto, was Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto No. 2, in which the Canadian soloist James Ehnes made his NSO debut. Restrained and urbane, Noseda leads NSO in strong Rachmaninoff 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z The concerto’s powerful march opening, deceptively simple in its orchestral unison, contains the five-note motif that unites the themes across its three movements. Clara Schumann and Florence Price Get Their Due at Carnegie Hall 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z Featuring Mozart’s overture to “La Clemenza di Tito” in addition to the Beethoven concerto and the Haydn symphony, the Christmas Eve show was cozy and compact, beginning at 7 p.m. and ending just after 8. Music Review: The New York String Orchestra at Carnegie Hall 2012-12-25T22:36:15Z Earlier in the program, the lucid violinist Isabelle Faust had performed extracts from a fidgety new concerto by the Argentine composer Oscar Strasnoy. Mozart, Made New: This Week’s 8 Best Classical Music Moments 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z Like “Split,” Mr. Norman’s piano concerto that received its premiere in December by the New York Philharmonic, “Switch” explores nonlinear, narrative-scrambling techniques borrowed from video games. Review: Premieres, a Tribute and an Anniversary at Carnegie Hall 2016-05-01T04:00:00Z This summer, he will reunite with Alsop to perform the Rachmaninoff concerto at the Bravo! A 19-Year-Old Pianist Electrifies Audiences. But He’s Unimpressed. 2023-05-09T04:00:00Z The concerto is autobiographical: its four movements, Schoenberg suggested, reflect sentiments like “Life was so easy” and “A grave situation was created.” Music Review: New York Philharmonic and Emanuel Ax Play Schoenberg 2012-10-05T23:16:56Z Passion and drama are present in this concerto, but while both Lill and Schwarz never neglected them, it was the tenderness and lyricism inherent in Lill's playing that stayed in the mind. Momentous Mahler, sprightly Mozart at Seattle Symphony 2012-04-06T16:51:04Z What were the challenges of doing the concertos in this way? A Pianist Comes Around on Period Instruments 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z The show, created by Rob Evan, will fuse ’80s rock songs with classical arias and concertos at the Broadway Theater from March 20 to April 29. ‘Rocktopia’ and ‘Home for the Holidays’ to Hit Broadway 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z The three-week festival is conducted by Alan Gilbert and includes world premieres of works which, tucked in between the concertos, serve as focal lenses for re-examining Beethoven. Contrasts Illuminate Beethoven in Philharmonic Festival 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z But the music was a revelation: two great piano concertos by Mozart and Beethoven, and a stellar piano soloist who also proved a nimble conductor from the keyboard. Seattle Symphony welcomes an audience back to Benaroya Hall for the first time in 14 months 2021-05-21T04:00:00Z At times the concerto seemed like two independent pieces played simultaneously: an idiomatic display piece for solo guitar and a big-boned neo-Romantic essay for orchestra. Critic’s Notebook: Robert Beaser’s Guitar Concerto at June in Buffalo Festival 2012-06-13T21:58:39Z But this is not a concerto that asks for digging. Can two sensations make revolutionary music? Conductor Dudamel and pianist Trifonov try to find a spark 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z By contrast Mr. van Oort made a persuasive case for revisiting Beethoven’s impetuous concerto on the kind of instrument he first performed it on. American Classical Orchestra Ends Its Season in ‘Prague’ 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z Classical-music lovers are so accustomed to the words “Schumann” and “violin concerto” that many might not notice, at first glance, that those two terms are not often linked. Midori fails to sell little-known Schumann to NSO audience The band attacked it hungrily, with Jon-Erik Kellso turning a running trumpet commentary into a riveting concerto: a mean feat by any yardstick, and surely in any age. New York Hot Jazz Festival Takes Over Players Club 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z At 42 he is now immersed in a project he calls his “Beethoven Journey,” performing the sonatas and concertos, and recording all five concertos with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, which he also conducts. Music Review: Philharmonic Opens Season at Avery Fisher Hall 2012-09-20T16:22:20Z The Proms tradition of the Beethoven Night will return and the first complete Beethoven piano concerto will be undertaken by British pianist Paul Lewis. Domingo to perform at the Proms 2010-04-22T11:00:00Z His large catalog features several concertos, numerous chamber pieces and five piano sonatas; he has received commissions from the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Boston Symphony, the Cleveland Orchestra and the New York Philharmonic. Review: Pairing Beethoven With George Walker at Mannes College 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z First there's Clara Schumann, one of the 19th century's greatest pianists, who prevailed upon her husband, composer Robert Schumann, to expand his "Phantasie" for piano and orchestra into his only full piano concerto. SSO plans a romantic weekend with conductor Jun M?rkl, German classics 2010-05-05T22:17:00Z In an interview, Rana, who called the concerto “a genius work in many ways,” said: “I think that it’s very, very underestimated — the intellectual value of this concerto in the history of music.” Clara Schumann and Florence Price Get Their Due at Carnegie Hall 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z A year ago, the Seattle Symphony challenged the city’s post-holiday malaise with a winning concept: two nights of Rachmaninov concertos played by prizewinning young pianists just hitting their stride on the international concert circuit. Beat the winter blahs with 2 nights of Tchaikovsky, at SSO 2014-01-09T21:08:07Z Schonberg took particular heat for a sentence in which he suggested that Gould had played the concerto so slowly because “maybe his technique is not so good.” For Glenn Gould, Form Followed Fingers 2010-09-25T21:04:00Z For all its popularity, the Dvorak concerto was a bold choice for an outdoor concert. Critic’s Notebook: New York Philharmonic Performs in the Parks 2013-07-11T21:34:28Z On Thursday and Saturday, the concerto is on a bill that includes Baltimore composer Christopher Rouse's 1981 "The Infernal Machine" and Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 4 in F minor. Violinist Augustin Hadelich will be Seattle Symphony's guest 2012-04-05T19:29:03Z Ms. Mutter, looking typically glamorous in one of her trademark strapless gowns, was soloist and leader in three violin concertos Mozart wrote as a teenager. Music Review: Pairing Wolfgangs From Two Eras 2010-11-19T22:50:00Z But for Folds, who recorded his latest album, “So There,” with the chamber ensemble yMusic and included his concerto as the last three tracks, it’s an exhilarating one. Ben Folds, unlikely poster boy for orchestras, brings millennials to late-night series 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z I yield to no one in my admiration for Britten, and I’ve always liked this early concerto. Review: A Bold Pianist Rescues an Overlooked Concerto 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z At a rehearsal, she can be seen trying out a phrase in a Chopin concerto one way, then another, then another. Martha Argerich mesmerizes the L.A. Phil 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z Nono wrote that the piece “is not in any circumstances a concerto for solo and accompaniment.” Luigi Nono’s Harsh Music Inspires Reflection and Action 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z With a new concerto on the bill, Masur couldn’t have had much more rehearsal time than a quick run-through of the symphony, with no opportunity to work on expression. Dvorak's 'New World' and a new piano concerto for our times at the Hollywood Bowl 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z Mr. Fulmer is also attracting increasing attention as a composer, with a Lincoln Center concerto premiere and a Carnegie Hall commission already under his belt. Music Review: Conor Hanick Performing John Cage at the Stone 2013-01-03T23:09:13Z Novel touches were plentiful in the group’s reading of this popular concerto, starting with its clipped rendering of the three rising chords that introduce it. Music Review: Proving That Early Music Can Contain Startling Shifts 2011-03-08T22:00:11Z He studied classical music at first, practicing for hours every day, and made his debut with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra playing a concerto by Mozart. Book review: Herbie Hancock’s ‘Possibilities’ How would you describe the character of this concerto? Yo-Yo Ma and Wu Man: A Concerto Conjures a Chinese Golden Age 2019-03-05T05:00:00Z The soloist in the concerto, meanwhile, was Kristian Bezuidenhout, elegant and eloquent as always, the dark, brittle sound of his fortepiano conferring qualities of declamatory urgency on a work often considered serenely sweet. OAE/Cohen review 2011-01-05T22:01:01Z Rose added that he would love more big orchestral pieces from Sanford, who has plans for a piano concerto, among other potential projects. David Sanford’s Music Has Flown Under the Radar. It Shouldn’t. 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z Mr. Holliger’s Bach concertos are reconstructions of putative lost originals of surviving keyboard concertos. Classical Recordings: Bach: Concertos and Sinfonias for Oboe 2011-08-27T04:00:27Z Subtitled “Moonlight” after the 2016 film that inspired it, the concerto was commissioned by the BSO and first heard last June in its New Music Festival. Review | Despite its troubles, BSO’s concert of American music is brilliant 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z The second piano concerto is, Barto says, deliberately Mozartean, at least in its gentle, chamber-music start, with lots of dialogue between soloist and orchestra. A modernist master’s Mozartean face: Rihm writes for Barto’s pianos 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z The superb German violinist Christian Tetzlaff joined Orpheus Chamber Orchestra for Joachim’s concerto on Saturday evening at Carnegie Hall, part of a program exploring Hungary’s musical heritage. Music Review: Christian Tetzlaff Joins Orpheus at Carnegie Hall 2014-03-31T21:19:15Z The program’s first block, the Second and First concertos, might have involved shaking out some jitters over the momentousness of the occasion. Review: Yuja Wang Sweeps Through a Rachmaninoff Marathon 2023-01-29T05:00:00Z After the Birtwistle, I though the Bartok was going to sound like a folk music concerto. Boston Symphony Shows Verve Even Without Levine 2011-03-16T06:11:47Z |
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